BACKGROUND The Children's Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (CEBQ) is a parent-report measure designed to assess variation in eating style among children. In the present study we translated the CEBQ and examined its factor structure in a sample of parents of 6- and 7-year-old children in the Netherlands. Additionally, associations between the mean scale scores of the instrument and children's body...

Healthy infant feeding practices form the basis of healthy eating behaviour later in life. The effect providing parents with recommendations on textured food introduction between 8 and 15 months children's experience acceptance foods was studied. Sixty parent/child dyads were randomly assigned to a control group (CG) receiving current French an intervention (IG) brochure supplementary advice, t...

Pediatric patients represent a significant portion of patients in the emergency department, and they often present with nonspecific complaints (such as fussiness, decreased oral intake, crying, or fever), which can pose a diagnostic dilemma. One serious cause for these complaints that should be considered is a urinary tract infection. Approximately 7% of fevers in pediatric patients presenting ...

BACKGROUND Eating self-regulatory capacity can help individuals to cope with the obesogenic environment and achieve, as well as maintain, a healthy weight and diet. At present, there is no comprehensive, reliable and valid questionnaire for assessing this capacity and measuring change in response to self-regulation interventions in adults. This paper reports the development of the Self-regulati...

AIM To evaluate the association between infantile colic and gastrointestinal, allergic and psychological disorders in childhood. METHODS A prospective study was conducted on 103 infants aged 31-87 d. After 10 y, between 2001 and 2003, the children were recalled and a paediatrician evaluated the selected disorders by anamnesis, medical examination, laboratory tests and parent interviews. RES...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate differences in children's eating behavior as a function of their nutritional status, sex and age. METHODS Male and female children aged six to ten years were included. They were recruited from a private school in the city of Pelotas, southern Brazil, in 2012. Children's Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (CEBQ) subscales were used to assess eating behaviours: Food Responsive...

An understanding of how infant eating behaviour relates to later obesity is required if interventions in infancy are to be attempted. The aim of this paper is to review findings from the Gateshead Millennium Study to describe (i) what we have already established about the relationship between infant feeding transitions, infancy weight gain and eating behaviour and (ii) describe new analyses tha...

Investigations into the prevalence of feeding problems among preschool children have found a remarkably high proportion are affected. Minde and Minde, reviewing the available epidemiological data, discovered that estimates of between 12-34% were usual.1 The sorts of difficulties that present to paediatricians tend to fall into two broad categories: refusal to eat (often found in association wit...

A 5-month-old previously healthy female presented with a one-week history of fever and increased fussiness. Her presentation revealed an ill-appearing infant with an exam and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) studies concerning bacterial meningitis; CSF cultures grew Pasteurella multocida. Additionally, brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated cervical osteomyelitis. Despite multiple days of...

Ms. Green, the mother of a 2-week-old infant, calls the lactation consultant with concerns that “my baby doesn’t like my milk.” Baby Patric was born at 41 weeks gestation, the product of a spontaneous vaginal delivery, weighing 3.8 kg at birth. At 2 weeks of age, Patric is well above birth weight, weighing 4.4 kg. Patric has been exclusively breastfed since birth, with feedings going well. Ms. ...