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Journal of Pediatric Psychology Advance Access originally published online on May 28, 2007
Journal of Pediatric Psychology 2007 32(8):960-972; doi:10.1093/jpepsy/jsm037
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Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire: Validation of a New Measure of Parental Feeding Practices

Dara Musher-Eizenman, PhD1 and Shayla Holub, PhD2

1Bowling Green State University and 2University of Texas at Dallas

All correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Dr Dara Musher-Eizenman. Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green OH 43403. E-mail: mushere{at}bgnet.bgsu.edu.


  Abstract

Objective Measures of parents’ feeding practices have focused primarily on parental control of feeding and have not sufficiently measured other potentially important practices. The current study validates a new measure of feeding practices, the Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire (CFPQ). Method The first study validated a 9-factor feeding practice scale for mothers and fathers. In the second study, open-ended questions solicited feeding practices from parents to develop a more comprehensive measure of parental feeding. The third study validated an expanded 12-factor feeding practices measure with mothers of children from 2 to 8 years of age. Results The CFPQ appears to be an adequate tool for measuring the feeding practices of parents of young children. Conclusions Researchers, clinicians, and health educators might use this measure to better understand how parents feed their children, the factors that contribute to these practices, and the implications of these practices on children's eating behaviors.

Key words: children; feeding practices; parent–child relations; scale development.

Received September 13, 2006; revision received February 7, 2007; accepted April 19, 2007


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