NCT03407391

Antecedent Picky Eating Behaviour in Young Children

Antecedents of Picky Eating Behaviour in Young Children

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 6,608 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Bristol · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Years – 3 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Picky eating behaviour in young children is a very common concern for parents. The aim of the study is to investigate factors during early life which are associated with a child becoming a picky eater.

Detailed description

Singleton children from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children will be studied prospectively (n=5758-6608). Parental-completion questionnaires will be used to define 'picky eating' status at age 3 years, and child and parental feeding behaviours and practices throughout the first 2 years of the child's life. Multinomial logistic regression models with 3 levels of picky eating status (not, somewhat and very picky) as the dependant variables will be used to test associations with antecedent variables, first assessing variables from pregnancy, and the first and second year of life, separately, then combining all significant variables in a final model.

Conditions

• Child Behavior
• Child Rearing
• Eating Behavior
• Parent-Child Relations
• Parenting
• Feeding and Eating Disorders of Childhood

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	None - observational	No intervention - observational only

Timeline

• Start date: 1991-04-01
• Primary completion: 1995-12-01
• Completion: 1995-12-01
• First posted: 2018-01-23
• Last updated: 2018-01-23