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  • Longitudinal changes in home food availability and concurrent associations with food and nutrient intake among children at 24–48 months

  • Jennifer M Barton, Arden L McMath, Stewart P Montgomery, Sharon M Donovan, Barbara H Fiese
  • Journal:
    Public Health Nutrition / Volume 27 / Issue 1 / 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 February 2024, e62
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  • Objectives:

    To describe changes in home food availability during early childhood, including modified, developmentally sensitive obesogenic scores, and to determine whether home food availability is associated with food and nutrient intakes of children concurrently, over time.

    Design:

    Data were drawn from the STRONG Kids 2 longitudinal, birth cohort to achieve the study objectives. Home food availability was assessed with the Home Food Inventory (HFI) and included fifteen food groups (e.g. fruit and vegetables) and three obesogenic scores (one original and two modified). Food and nutrient intakes were measured using the Block FFQ and included twenty-seven food groups and eighteen nutrients (e.g. vitamins A and C, protein). HFI and FFQ were completed by trained researchers or mothers, respectively, at 24, 36 and 48 months. Repeated-measures ANOVA and Spearman’s correlations were used to achieve the study objectives.

    Setting:

    Central Illinois, USA.

    Participants:

    Participants were 468 children at 24, 36 and 48 months of age.

    Results:

    Availability of less nutritious foods and obesogenic foods and beverages increased as children aged, and availability of both nutritious and less nutritious foods were associated with child food and nutrient intake. The three obesogenic scores demonstrated similar, positive associations with the intake of energy, saturated fat, added sugars and kilocalories from sweets.

    Conclusion:

    These findings offer novel insight into changes in home food availability and associations with food and nutrient intake during early childhood. Additional attention is needed examining antecedents (e.g. built environments, purchasing behaviours) and consequences (e.g. child diet quality and weight) of home food availability.

  • The interaction of maternal and infant vulnerabilities on developing attachment relationships

  • JULIE POEHLMANN, BARBARA H. FIESE
  • Journal:
    Development and Psychopathology / Volume 13 / Issue 1 / March 2001
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    09 March 2001, pp. 1-11

  • The present study sought to document an example of how maternal and infant vulnerabilities interact in contributing to the quality of early attachment relationships. Maternal depressive symptoms, neonatal health characteristics, and infant–mother attachment were assessed for 42 preterm, low birth weight infants and 42 full-term infants at 12 months postterm. Results indicated that preterm birth moderated the relation between maternal depressive symptoms and quality of infant–mother attachment, even controlling for level of neonatal health complications. Preterm infants with more symptomatic mothers were most likely to be classified as insecurely attached to their mothers, whereas no direct relation between subclinical depressive symptoms and attachment was found for full-term infants.

  • 7 - Transactional Regulation: The Developmental Ecology of Early Intervention

  • Edited by Jack P. Shonkoff, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, Samuel J. Meisels, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Foreword by Edward F. Zigler, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book:
    Handbook of Early Childhood Intervention
    Published online:
    05 November 2011
    Print publication:
    22 May 2000, pp 135-159

  • Summary

    The prevention of children's psychosocial disorders has not been an easily accomplished task. During the years since we wrote this last sentence in our chapter for the first edition of this book (Sameroff & Fiese, 1990), the lives of children in the United States have not improved. The Children's Defense Fund (1995) estimates that between 3 and 10 million children experience domestic violence yearly, with more than a million confirmed child abuse or neglect cases in 1993. Mental health also continues to be a major problem, with approximately 20% of children having diagnosable disorders (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1990). Surveys of child health found that 13.4% of children in the United States have emotional or behavioral disorders, 6.5% have learning disabilities, and 4% have developmental delays (Zill & Schoenborn, 1990). Decreasing these numbers requires a clear understanding of the causes of these childhood problems. One of the clear correlates of increases in child problems is the decline in the quality of children's environments.

    Concurrent with the high level of problems among children, family resources for coping with these problems have diminished. In 1991, 22% of children lived in families with incomes below the poverty line, the highest rate since the early 1960s (Children's Defense Fund, 1992). During the same period, the percentage of female-headed singleparent homes increased from 7% to more than 21% (McLanahan, Astone, & Marks, 1991). Moreover, 75% of mothers of school-age children are in the workforce now compared to about 50% in 1970 (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1993).