Aim: Weight problems are increasingly common in young children. To develop a healthy eating behavior and, in the long term, a healthy weight, children depend on the parents feeding style. Therefore...Show moreAim: Weight problems are increasingly common in young children. To develop a healthy eating behavior and, in the long term, a healthy weight, children depend on the parents feeding style. Therefore, the current study investigated whether the Video-Feedback Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting – Feeding Infants (VIPP-FI) is an effective intervention to reduce pressuring during mealtimes and to stimulate healthy weight of children. Furthermore, it is examined whether there is a (mediated) relation between pressuring, the satiety responsiveness, and the child’s weight. Method: 109 mother-child pairs were included, 54 (49.5%) mother-child pairs participated in the VIPP-FI group, and 55 (50.5%) mother-child pairs participated in the control group. Pressuring to eat was measured with the Infant Feeding Style Questionnaire (IFSQ), the satiety responsiveness with the Child Eating Behavior Questionnaire (CEBQ-T), and the weight-for-length SDS with TNO’s growth calculator. All three were measured before the intervention (4-6 months) and after the intervention (18 months). Results: Before and after the intervention, the results showed that there was no difference in pressuring, both for mothers who participated in the VIPP-FI group and for mothers who participated in the control group. Moreover, for both groups, there was no difference in the weight of children over time. Finally, no direct and mediated relation has been found between pressuring and the weight of children. However, a negative relation has been found between the satiety responsiveness and the weight of children. Conclusion: Contrary to the expectations, no effect of the VIPP-FI on the weight of children has been found. Future studies should include a more objective method to measure several components of the feeding style to obtain the entire effectiveness of the VIPP-FI. Secondly, the use of multiple measurement moments (up to 36 months) is important, so this way it can be investigated whether the relations are predictive.Show less
