Document Type
Article
Disciplines
3. MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES, Nutrition, Dietetics, Paediatrics
Abstract
Individual differences in children eating behaviours have been linked with childhood overweight and obesity. The determinants of childhood eating behaviours are influenced by a complex combination of hereditary and ecological factors. This study examines if key ecological predictors of childhood overweight; maternal socio-economic status (SES), children’s screen time, and childcare arrangements, are associated with eating behaviours in children aged 5-years-old.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-022-03423-x
Recommended Citation
Delahunt, A., Conway, M.C. & O’Brien, E.C. (2022). Ecological factors and childhood eating behaviours at 5 years of age: findings from the ROLO longitudinal birth cohort study. BMC Pediatrics, vol. 22, no. 366. doi:10.1186/s12887-022-03423-x
Funder
This study was supported by the Health Research Board, Ireland, the Health Research Centre for Health and Diet Research, The National Maternity Hospital Medical Fund and the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013), project Early nutrition under grant agreement no. 289346.
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