Children's eating behavior, feeding practices of parents and weight problems in early childhood: results from the population-based Generation R Study

Table 3 Association of child eating behavior and eat-related parenting with children’s BMI SD scores

			BMI standard deviation scores
	Model 1: unadjusted		Model 2 ^#		Model 3 ^¶
CEBQ (per SD)	B (95 % CI)	p	B (95 % CI)	P	B (95 % CI)	p
Food avoidant
Emotional Undereating	−0.10 (−0.13, -0.07)	<.001	−0.08 (−0.10, -0.05)	<.001	−0.06 (−0.09, -0.04)	<.001
Satiety Responsiveness	−0.23 (−0.26, -0.20)	<.001	−0.21 (−0.24, -0.18)	<.001	−0.17 (−0.21, -0.14)	<.001
Fussiness	−0.08 (−0.12, -0.05)	<.001	−0.07 (−0.10, -0.04)	<.001	−0.04 (−0.07, -0.01)	.019
Food approach
Emotional Overeating	0.02 (−0.01, 0.05)	.176	--	--	--	--
Food Responsiveness	0.23 (0.19, 0.26)	<.001	0.21 (0.18, 0.24)	<.001	0.17 (0.13, 0.21)	<.001
Enjoyment of Food	0.14 (0.11, 0.18)	<.001	0.15 (0.11, 0.18)	<.001	0.10 (0.06, 0.14)	<.001
Desire to Drink	0.02 (−0.01, 0.06)	.184	--	--	--	--
CFQ (per SD)
Monitoring	−0.02 (−0.05, 0.02)	.343	--	--	--	--
Restriction	0.09 (0.07, 0.12)	<.001	0.09 (0.07, 0.12)	<.001	0.06 (0.04, 0.09)	<.001
Pressure to Eat	−0.18 (−0.21, -0.15)	<.001	−0.17 (−0.20, -0.14)	<.001	−0.09 (−0.12, -0.06)	<.001

^# Model 2: adjusted for child gender, national origin, birth weight, age at questionnaire and BMI assessment, maternal educational level, family income, smoking during pregnancy, and maternal and paternal BMI and psychopathology. ^¶ Model 3: model 2 additionally adjusted for CFQ-scales (analyses with CEBQ as determinant) or CEBQ-scales (analyses with CFQ as determinant).

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