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Volume 9
Journal of Obesity & Weight Loss Therapy
ISSN: 2165-7904
JOINT EVENT
Childhood Obesity 2019
Diabetes Conference 2019
March 18-19, 2019
&
3
rd
World Congress on
Diabetes and Obesity
12
th
International Conferences on
Childhood Obesity and Nutrition
March 18-19, 2019 | Rome, Italy
Childhood obesity and parental feeding practices in a Colombian vulnerable population
Edna Gamboa-Delgado
and
Martha Lucía Caceres
Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia
Statement of the Problem:
Different parental feeding practices or not may favor healthy eating behaviors in children.
Some of these practices could increase the risk of childhood obesity.
Objective:
To evaluate the association between parental feeding practices and childhood obesity in less fortunate
children.
Methodology:
Analytical cross sectional in preschool children and their parents (n=384), beneficiaries of government
programs of the Colombian Family Welfare Institute aimed at economically, socially and nutritionally vulnerable
population. A 55-item Parental Feeding Practices Questionnaire, validated in Latino parents was used (response
options ranged from never (=1) to always (=5)). The sample was chosen by simple random sample from the total
number of Child Development Centers of Bucaramanga, Colombia. Models of binomial regression were used.
Findings:
The average of parent’s age was 33.47 years±10.96. The 52.59% of participants belonged to low socio
economic status. The overweight or obesity prevalence was 4.83% (CI 95% 2.78; 7.73). The most common parental
feeding practices were encourage/compliment healthy eating (median: 4.1) and ask child what he/she ate (Median:
4.0), both belonging to positive involvement in child eating dimension, followed by tell child to eat all food on
plate (median: 3.57) of pressure to eat dimension. The children whose parents ask them what he/she ate, have less
probability of present childhood obesity (RR: 0.68, CI 95%: 0.44; 0.96, p=0.043), while children whose parents
use food as reward have almost two times more probability of develop childhood obesity (RR: 1.86, CI: 1.15; 3.01;
p=0.011).
Conclusion & Significance:
This study provides evidence that some parental feeding practices are associated with
childhood obesity in Colombian vulnerable children. These findings are important for the design, implementation
and evaluation of nutrition education programs focused on parents.
Recent publications:
1. Afonso L, Lopes C, Severo M, Santos S, Real H, Durão C, Moreira P and Oliveira A (2016) Bidirectional
association between parental child-feeding practices and body mass index at 4 and 7 y of age. Am J Clin Nutr.
103: 3 861-867.
2. Blissett J and Bennett C (2013) Cultural differences in parental feeding practices and children’s eating
behaviours and their relationships with child BMI: a comparison of Black Afro-Caribbean, White British and
White German samples. Eur J Clin Nutr. 67(2):180-4.
3. Tschann J M, Gregorich S E, Penilla C, Pasch L A, de Groat C L, Flores E, et al. (2013) Parental feeding practices
inMexicanAmerican families: initial test of an expandedmeasure. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition
and Physical Activity 10(6):1-11.
4. Tschann J M, Martínez S M, Gregorich S E, Penilla C, Pasch L A, de Groat C L, et al. (2015) Parental feeding
practices and child weight status in Mexican American families: a longitudinal analysis. International Journal
of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 12:66.
Edna Gamboa-Delgado et al., J Obes Weight Loss Ther 2019, Volume 9
DOI: 10.4172/2165-7904-C1-091