NCT01122290

Inducing Children's Emotional Eating

Inducing Preschool Children's Emotional Eating: Relationships With Parental Feeding Practices.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 64 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Birmingham · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Years – 5 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Background: Children's emotional eating is related to greater BMI and less healthy diet but little is known about the early development of this behavior. Objective: This study aimed to examine the relationships between preschool children's emotional eating and parental feeding practices using experimental manipulation of child mood and food intake in a laboratory setting. Design: 25 3-5 year old children and their mothers sat together and ate a standard meal to satiety. Mothers completed questionnaires about their feeding practices. Children were assigned to a control or negative mood condition. Children's consumption of snack foods in the absence of hunger was measured.

Conditions

• Emotional Eating Behaviour

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-05-01
• Primary completion: 2009-06-01
• Completion: 2009-06-01
• First posted: 2010-05-13
• Last updated: 2010-05-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom