Parental-Child Feeding Practices and Its Associated Factors Among Paediatric Outpatient in HPUPM

Shuhaimi, Nadiah syahirah (2022) Parental-Child Feeding Practices and Its Associated Factors Among Paediatric Outpatient in HPUPM. [Project Paper] (Submitted)

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Abstract

Parental child feeding practices are eating specific behaviors, food or strategies that parents use to influence what, how and when their children eat. Therefore, they play an important role in the development of their children eating behavior and the subsequent weight status. This study aimed to investigate the associations of sociodemographic, medical history, anthropometric data, dietary intake and household environment with parental-child feeding practices among paediatric outpatients in HPUPM. Mother of the children (n=61) completed an online questionnaire includes Sociodemographic, anthropometric measurements, parental-child feeding practices and household environment family meal routine. While 24-hour dietary recall was interviewed by the researcher. The medical history of respondents was acquired from the hospital medical records. Parental-child feeding practices and family meal routine was measured based on the Child Feeding Practices (CFP) questionnaire and the Family Ritual Questionnaire dinnertime scale. SPSS version 26 with the significance level is set at p<0.05 and Pearson’s correlation were used to analyse the data. Majority of children's age range were toddlers aged 2 to 3 years old 39.3%, male 52.5%, about 91.8% of the children were Malays. Not majority of the children had an overweight BMI-for- age z score of 24.6%, small proportion of the children was underweight 23% and most of the children was normal 52.5%. The highest mean are Practices which include subdomains Restriction, Pressure to eat and Monitoring 12 ± 1.7 followed by Beliefs includes Perceived responsibility, Parental perceived weight and Perceived child weight 9.5 ± 1.2 and the lowest mean were Attitude with the subdomains Parents' concern about the child's weight 3.3 ± 1.0. The mean values for total energy intake are 1397.59 ± 665.22. In conclusion, there were no significant association between Sociodemographic, anthropometry and 24-hour dietary intake with parental-child feeding practices (p>0.05).

Item Type:	Project Paper
Faculty:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Science
Depositing User:	Mr Khoirul Asrimi Md Nor
Date Deposited:	16 Aug 2023 01:09
Last Modified:	16 Aug 2023 01:09
URI:	http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/998

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