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Relations between diet intake and parenting stress in breastfeeding women
Author(s) -
Butler Kara,
Kennedy Tay,
AubuchonEndsley Nicki,
Valtr Tabitha,
Rudluff Rebecca,
Thomas David G
Publication year - 2010
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.24.1_supplement.556.13
Subject(s) - breastfeeding , dysfunctional family , medicine , distress , food group , food frequency questionnaire , psychology , demography , environmental health , pediatrics , clinical psychology , sociology
The purpose of this study was to determine the relation between diet as measured by the Diet History Questionnaire and parenting stress in 50 women breastfeeding their 3 month old infants. The Parenting Stress Index (Short From) assessed total stress (TS) and has subscales assessing parental distress (PD), parent‐child dysfunctional interactions (PCDI) and child difficulty (DC). Mean age of women was 28.3 years (SD 5.3) and infant birth weight was 7.5 lbs (SD .9). Correlation analyses found that PCDI was correlated with caffeine (r = .317, p = .025); dairy servings (r = .377, p = .007) and added sugar (r = .283, p = .047). However, DC was correlated with saturated fat (r = .327, p = .020) and dairy servings (r = .477 p = .000). Dairy servings were also related to TS (r = .381, p = .006) and PD was related to grain servings (r = −.291, p = .040). Results suggest further investigation into the relation between food choice and stress to provide appropriate guidance to women. This project was supported by National Research Initiative Grant 2008‐35200‐18779 from the USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture.