Journal article
Feeding behavior in three-year-old children born <30 weeks and term-born peers
K Sanchez, JO Boyce, AT Morgan, AJ Spittle
Appetite | ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | Published : 2018
Abstract
Background: Feeding difficulties threaten growth, health and neurodevelopment, and are prevalent among infants born preterm. The literature differs on (i) whether these problems persist into early childhood, and (ii) risk factors in the preterm population. In this study we explore feeding difficulties and risk factors in preterm and term-born three-year-olds. Objectives: To determine whether three-year-olds born <30 weeks have poorer feeding outcomes than their term-born peers; and identify predictors of feeding outcomes in children born <30 weeks. Methods: Feeding outcomes were examined in three-year-old children born <30 weeks, and a term-born comparison group, using parent report and the ..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
This study was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council (AM Career Development Award #607315; Practitioner Fellow #1105008; AS Career Development Fellowship #1108714, Centre for Research Excellence in Newborn Medicine grant #1060733; KS Centre for Research Excellence in Newborn Medicine grant #1060733), an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship (KS), and Speech Pathology Australia's Nadia Verrall Memorial Research Grant (KS). Murdoch Children's Research Institute research is supported by the Victorian government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program. The funders had no role in study design, the collection, analysis or interpretation of data, the writing of this report or the decision to submit this article for publication.