Journal article
Parenting Behaviors and Nutrition in Children with Leukemia
LK Williams, KE Lamb, MC McCarthy
Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings | Published : 2015
Abstract
The aim of this study was to examine whether parenting behaviors are associated with child nutrition amongst pre-school children receiving treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), and to determine whether this association differs from that observed amongst a healthy population. Participants were 73 parents of children aged 2–6 years. The children were either a) receiving treatment for ALL (n = 43), or b) had no major medical history (n = 30). Participants completed psychometrically validated questionnaires that assessed parenting behaviors and child diet. Increased parental overprotection was associated with higher fruit and vegetable consumption for the control group but lower frui..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This study was funded by the Ponting Foundation and the Victorian Government Department of Human Services and the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program. KE Lamb was supported under a National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence grant, ID#1035261, to the Victorian Centre for Biostatistics (ViCBiostat). We gratefully acknowledge the parents who participated in the study, Madeleine Bowden, the project research assistant who assisted with participant recruitment and Jessica Bastiani, a Masters in Clinical Psychology student who assisted with recruitment and data entry.