Parenting Styles and their Impact on Child Adiposity
Words: 2836 Pages: 9 1574The study conducted by Hurley and colleagues (Hurley, Pallen, Lancashire, Adab & Investigators, 2018) aimed to investigate the relationship between parents or caretakers feeding practices to children at the age 7-8 years old and their adiposity measurements one year later at age 8-9 years old. The study took into account a secondary analysis to collect feedback from parents and children qualitative data on feeding practices in subscale categories. Adiposity was measured with the three factors of waist-to-height ratio, body fat […]