PMID- 23275861
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 2153-2176 (Electronic)
IS  - 2153-2168 (Print)
IS  - 2153-2168 (Linking)
VI  - 7
IP  - 5
DP  - 2011 Oct 18
TI  - Distress at the Dinner Table? Observed Mealtime Interactions among 
      Treatment-Seeking Families of Obese Children.
PG  - 385-391
AB  - BACKGROUND: Although family-based, behavioral interventions for pediatric obesity 
      require caregivers to make major changes to dietary intake and the family meal, 
      few studies have examined family functioning, and specifically, mealtime 
      behaviors among families of treatment-seeking obese children. The current study 
      compared mealtime family functioning of treatment-seeking obese children and 
      nonobese demographically matched comparisons using a multimethod design. METHODS: 
      Participants included the families of 27 obese children (BMI >/=95(th) percentile; 
      M body mass index (BMI) z-score values [M zBMI] = 2.55) at the time of treatment 
      initiation and 27 families of nonobese children (M zBMI = 0.17). Each family's 
      evening meal was videotaped and coded for observed family functioning using the 
      Mealtime Interaction Coding System (MICS). Caregivers completed a demographics 
      form and a measure of family mealtime climate. RESULTS: Caregivers of obese 
      children self-reported greater mealtime challenges and a less positive meal 
      environment than non-obese comparisons. There were no significant group 
      differences in observed family mealtime interactions. CONCLUSION: Interestingly, 
      although group means on the observational measure of mealtime family functioning 
      were not significantly different, caregivers of obese children reported greater 
      mealtime stress. Accordingly, it is important in the context of treatment to 
      address caregiver perceptions of mealtime challenges and to examine the extent to 
      which these self-reported challenges affect implementation of treatment 
      recommendations and treatment outcomes.
FAU - Piazza-Waggoner, Carrie
AU  - Piazza-Waggoner C
AD  - Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, Cincinnati Children's 
      Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.
FAU - Modi, Avani C
AU  - Modi AC
FAU - Ingerski, Lisa M
AU  - Ingerski LM
FAU - Wu, Yelena P
AU  - Wu YP
FAU - Zeller, Meg H
AU  - Zeller MH
LA  - eng
GR  - K23 DK060031/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States
GR  - T32 DK063929/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Child Obes
JT  - Childhood obesity (Print)
JID - 101542497
PMC - PMC3531982
MID - NIHMS411711
COIS- No competing financial interests exist.
EDAT- 2011/10/18 00:00
MHDA- 2011/10/18 00:01
PMCR- 2012/10/01
CRDT- 2013/01/01 06:00
PHST- 2013/01/01 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/10/18 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/10/18 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 2012/10/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1089/chi.2011.0066 [pii]
AID - 10.1089/chi.2011.0066 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Child Obes. 2011 Oct 18;7(5):385-391. doi: 10.1089/chi.2011.0066.