Impact of Behavioral Feeding Intervention on Parent-Child Attachment in Young Children

University of Michigan

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Pediatric Feeding Disorders

Treatments: Behavioral: Behavioral feeding intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02187952

13-PAF07294

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary objective of the proposed study is to determine whether behavioral feeding intervention impacts mother-child attachment in infants and toddlers with feeding problems. The investigators propose the following hypotheses:

• Behavioral feeding intervention will not significantly impact parent-child attachment.
• Behavioral feeding intervention will not significantly impact parent-child unstructured play interactions.
• Severity of feeding problems will decrease after behavioral feeding intervention is implemented.
• Behavioral feeding intervention will have either no significant effect or a significant positive effect on general child behavior.

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 48 months old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Caregiver Based

• Mothers
• Conducts feeding intervention ≥75% of the time at home
• Understands and speaks English

Child Based

• 12-14 or 30-48 months old at initial assessment
• Clinically significant feeding problem
• Self-initiates movement
• Can be left alone in a room for 3 minutes
• Capable of initiating eye contact

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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24 participants in 2 patient groups

Behavioral feeding intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Behavioral feeding intervention will be conducted as usual. The intervention will not be altered for purposes of the study.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Behavioral feeding intervention

Waitlist control

No Intervention group