Confident Body, Confident Child: Outcomes for Children of Parents Receiving a Universal Parenting Program to Promote Healthful Eating Patterns and Positive Body Image in Their Pre-Schoolers—An Exploratory RCT Extension
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants and Recruitment
2.2. Measures
2.3. Procedures
2.4. Statistics
3. Results
3.1. Participant Characteristics
3.2. Child Outcome Measures
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Ethics approval and consent to participate
Data availability statement
Abbreviations
CBCC | The Confident Body, Confident Child Program |
BMI | Body Mass Index |
DEBQ | Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire |
BES | Body Esteem Scale |
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Variable | Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D | Total | |||||
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M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |
Child BMIz | 0.23 | 0.89 | 0.04 | 0.79 | 0.50 | 0.97 | 0.50 | 0.81 | 0.29 | 0.87 |
Parent BMI | 27.53 | 6.83 | 23.73 | 4.21 | 24.10 | 4.02 | 24.57 | 4.67 | 25.17 | 5.40 |
Child Age | 5.41 | 0.98 | 5.96 | 0.92 | 5.92 | 0.94 | 5.58 | 1.12 | 5.71 | 1.00 |
Parent Age | 38.52 | 3.96 | 39.54 | 3.68 | 39.81 | 3.43 | 38.67 | 4.64 | 39.09 | 3.92 |
Body Satisfaction a | 2.61 | 0.04 | 2.78 | 0.04 | 2.55 | 0.05 | 2.59 | 0.27 | 2.65 | 0.28 |
Weight Bias | 6.38 | 1.40 | 6.29 | 1.70 | 7.28 | 1.42 | 6.17 | 1.73 | 6.49 | 1.59 |
External Eating | 1.77 | 0.47 | 2.11 | 0.43 | 2.07 | 0.41 | 2.01 | 0.55 | 1.99 | 0.48 |
Emotional Eating b | 1.39 | 1.26 | 1.38 | 1.35 | 1.23 | |||||
Restrained Eating | 1.48 | 0.42 | 1.32 | 0.28 | 1.46 | 0.44 | 1.46 | 0.42 | 1.42 | 0.39 |
Contrasts | Difference (Estimate-Hypothesised) | SE | p | η2 | |
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Body Satisfaction | |||||
Group D | Groups C, B and A | −0.01 | 0.02 | 0.48 | |
Group C | Groups B and A | −0.04 | 0.02 | 0.03 * | 0.05 |
Group B | Group A | 0.06 | 0.02 | 0.01 * | 0.08 |
Weight Bias | |||||
Group D | Groups C, B and A | −1.43 | 1.33 | 0.29 | |
Group C | Groups B and A | 1.88 | 0.94 | 0.048 * | 0.05 |
Group B | Group A | −0.10 | 0.47 | 0.84 | |
External Eating | |||||
Group D | Groups C, B and A | 0.05 | 0.13 | 0.71 | |
Group C | Groups B and A | 0.13 | 0.09 | 0.15 | |
Group B | Group A | 0.16 | 0.05 | 0.002 ** | 0.11 |
Restrained Eating | |||||
Group D | Groups C, B and A | 0.04 | 0.13 | 0.76 | |
Group C | Groups B and A | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.59 | |
Group B | Group A | −0.06 | 0.05 | 0.20 |
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Hill, K.E.; Hart, L.M.; Paxton, S.J. Confident Body, Confident Child: Outcomes for Children of Parents Receiving a Universal Parenting Program to Promote Healthful Eating Patterns and Positive Body Image in Their Pre-Schoolers—An Exploratory RCT Extension. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 891. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17030891
Hill KE, Hart LM, Paxton SJ. Confident Body, Confident Child: Outcomes for Children of Parents Receiving a Universal Parenting Program to Promote Healthful Eating Patterns and Positive Body Image in Their Pre-Schoolers—An Exploratory RCT Extension. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17(3):891. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17030891
Chicago/Turabian StyleHill, Katherine E., Laura M. Hart, and Susan J. Paxton. 2020. "Confident Body, Confident Child: Outcomes for Children of Parents Receiving a Universal Parenting Program to Promote Healthful Eating Patterns and Positive Body Image in Their Pre-Schoolers—An Exploratory RCT Extension" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 3: 891. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17030891