Associations between maternal depressive symptoms and child feeding practices in a cross-sectional study of low-income mothers and their young children

Background: Maternal depression may influence feeding practices important in determining child eating behaviors and weight. However, the association between maternal depressive symptoms and feeding practices has been inconsistent, and most…

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A longitudinal study of children’s outside play using family environment and perceived physical environment as predictors

Background: A natural and cheap way of increasing children's physical activity is stimulating unstructured outside play.Purpose: This study examined whether characteristics of the family and perceived physical environment were associated…

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Obesity related eating behaviour patterns in Swedish preschool children and association with age, gender, relative weight and parental weight – factorial validation of the Children’s Eating Behaviour Questionnaire

Viktoria Svensson, Linda Lundborg, Yingting Cao, Paulina Nowicka, Claude Marcus, Tanja SobkoInternational Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011, 8:134 (8 December 2011)

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