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

Table 6 Adjusted logistic regression models predicting maternal feeding practices from maternal depressive symptoms ¹

Outcome	OR (95% CI)
Interviews ²
Low authority	2.82 (1.55, 5.12)
Not confident	1.41 (0.76, 2.59)
Removed (vs. mild or deep investment)	1.68 (0.91, 3.13)
Home meal observations ³
Child always eats at table	0.60 (0.30, 1.21)
TV always audible during meal	1.91 (1.05, 3.48)
Mother always eats with child	0.48 (0.27, 0.85)

¹Adjusted for: child sex, food fussiness, number of older siblings; and maternal age, BMI, education, race/ethnicity, single parent status, perceived child weight, and concern about child weight. All models are comparing mothers with elevated depressive symptoms (Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression scale (CES-D) score ≥16) to mothers with lower levels of depressive symptoms (CES-D score < 16).
²n = 287 with complete data for adjusted models for all interview outcome measures.
³n = 267 with complete data for adjusted models for all home meal observation outcome measures.

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