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Non‐responsive feeding styles are related to maternal mental health symptomatology and low rates of breastfeeding
Author(s) -
Hurley Kristen Marie,
Black Maureen M,
Papas Mia A,
Caulfield Laura E
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.22.1_supplement.446.7
Subject(s) - breastfeeding , medicine , anxiety , mental health , ethnic group , depression (economics) , infant feeding , breast feeding , demography , psychology , clinical psychology , pediatrics , psychiatry , sociology , anthropology , economics , macroeconomics
Objectives: To investigate whether feeding styles are related to maternal mental health and breastfeeding. Method: Analyses are based on 702 mother‐infant pairs from a statewide telephone survey of WIC mothers administered in English and Spanish; 64.1% had initiated breastfeeding. Results: In bivariate analyses, breastfeeding was related to responsive feeding (β =0.13; CI: 0.03, 0.22). In multivariate analyses, adjusting for maternal education, breastfeeding, race/ethnicity, and infant age and gender, maternal stress symptomatology was associated with forceful (β =0.03; CI: 0.02, 0.05) and uninvolved (OR=1.4; CI: 1.1,1.7) feeding styles, maternal depression symptomatology was associated with forceful (β=0.03; CI: 0.004, 0.05), indulgent (β=0.03; CI: 0.004, 0.06), and uninvolved (OR=1.5; CI: 1.001, 2.2) feeding styles, and maternal anxiety symptomatology was related to restrictive (β=0.11; CI: 0.01, 0.21), forceful (β=0.04; CI: 0.02, 0.06), and uninvolved (OR=1.4; CI: 1.01, 1.9) feeding styles. Conclusion: Mothers who report non‐responsive feeding styles report mental health symptomatology and low rates of breastfeeding. Findings provide support for broadening the focus of child nutrition programs to include feeding styles.