Breastfeeding in Infancy and Food Intake in Preschool-Aged Children

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare female, preschool-aged children breastfed during infancy to female, preschool-aged children bottle-fed during infancy in their ability to adjust calorie intake in response to internal signals of hunger and fullness. Children and a parent will come to two sessions, with the children given drinks that are either high or low in energy, and then consume a lunch following the drink. The parent will be present during the lunch. Greater ability to self-regulate intake is demonstrated when less energy is consumed at lunch following the high energy drink as compared to the lunch following the low energy drink. Lunches will be videotaped so that parental feeding styles (i.e., how the parent interacted with the child during lunch) can be examined. The primary hypotheses are: 1.) the exclusively breastfed children will have higher self-regulation ability than the exclusively bottle-fed children, and 2.) the mothers of the exclusively breastfed children will demonstrate a parental feeding style characterized by less control and restriction than the mothers (or parent primarily responsible for child feeding) of the exclusively bottle-fed children.

Conditions

• Childhood Obesity
• Breastfeeding

Interventions

OTHER

High Energy Density Preload

Each child with a parent will attend a lunch session. In these sessions children will drink a liquid preload that is high in energy density and then they will consume an ad libitum lunch. The ad libitum lunch will be videotaped, and the videotapes will be coded for parental feeding styles

OTHER

Low Energy Density Preload

Each child with a parent will attend a lunch session. In these sessions children will drink a liquid preload that is low in energy density and then they will consume an ad libitum lunch. The ad libitum lunch will be videotaped, and the videotapes will be coded for parental feeding styles.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Hollie A Raynor, PhD · University of Tennessee

• Katie Kavanagh, PhD · Univerisity of Tennessee

• Hiliary Fouts, PhD · University of Tennessee

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Masking

SINGLE

Model

CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age

3 Years

Max Age

5 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2010-06-30

Primary Completion

2010-06-30

Completion

2010-07-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations