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Parent feeding measures available: Child Feeding Questionnaire (Birch et al., 2001) Infant and Preschooler Feeding Questionnaires (Baughcum et al., 2001) Caregiver Feeding Styles Questionnaire (Hughes et al., 2005) Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire (Musher-Eizenman & Holub, 2007)
Why develop another scale 1.To focus on PARENT BEHAVIORS, NOT ATTITUDES . . . . . . . . . Parents often want specific behavioral “do and “don’t” lists Attitudes are already quite consistent (.76), but behaviors are not (.55) 2. To complete MORE PSYCHOMETRIC EXAMINATION Larger sample sizes Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis Examination of gender differences Internal reliability Test-retest reliability Convergent validity 3. To examine how well our scale EXPLAINED CHILDREN’S WEIGHT AND DIET BMI%, FRVEG, SNACKS
Page 1 and 2: The Parent Mealtime Action Scale (P
Page 3 and 4: 1. INTRODUCTION
Page 8 and 9: Selection of 66 possible PMAS items
Page 10 and 11: Sample 1 2008 mothers, 130 fathers
Page 12 and 13: Sample 3 49 mothers, 6 fathers 46%
Page 14 and 15: Factor analysis approach: Eliminate
Page 16 and 17: PMAS RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY: Inte
Page 18 and 19: Example of items within PMAS dimens
Page 20 and 21: Gender differences in use of PMAS d
Page 22 and 23: MULTIPLE REGRESSION RESULTS FOR PMA
Page 24 and 25: MULTIPLE REGRESSION RESULTS FOR PMA
Page 26 and 27: Parent actions associated with chil
Page 28: Next research steps: 1. Confirmator

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