Sheryl O. Hughes Lab

Hughes Lab Questionnaires

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Caregivers Feeding Styles Questionnaire

Content

The Caregivers Feeding Styles Questionnaire is a brief, widely used, reliable, and validated self-report questionnaire designed to assess parental feeding styles. This questionnaire has been successfully used with parents from multiple low-income populations including Black, White, and Hispanic.

Administration

  • Personnel and Training Required: None
  • Equipment Needs: None
  • Life stage: Children ages 3-11 years

Languages

  • English
  • Spanish

Caregiver’s Feeding Styles Questionnaires

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Publications

Hughes SO, Power TG, Fisher JO, Mueller S, Nicklas T. Revisiting a neglected construct: Parenting styles in a child-feeding context. Appetite. 2005;44(1):83-92.

Hughes SO, Shewchuk RM, Baskin ML, Nicklas TA, Qu H. Indulgent feeding style and children’s weight status in preschool. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. 2008;29(5):403-410.

Hughes SO, Power TG, Papaioannou M, Cross M, Nicklas T, Hall S, Shewchuk RM. Emotional climate, feeding behaviors, and feeding styles: An observational analysis of the dinner meal in Head Start families. The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition & Physical Activity. 2011;8(60):1-11.

Hughes SO, Power TG, Fisher JO, O’Connor TM, Micheli, N, Papaioannou MA. Maternal feeding style and child weight status among Hispanic families with low-income levels: A longitudinal study of the direction of effects. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 2021;18:30.

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Food Parenting Inventory

Content

The Food Parenting Inventory is a reliable and validated self-report questionnaire designed to assess food parenting practices based on the Vaughn et al., 2016 conceptual model with the exception of food availability/accessibility, food preparation, and praise. The English and Spanish versions of the questionnaire have been successfully used with parents from multiple low-income populations.

Administration

  • Personnel and Training Required: None
  • Equipment Needs: None
  • Life stage: Children ages 2-8 years

Languages

  • English
  • Spanish

Food Parenting Inventory Questionnaires

Scoring

Publications

Power TG, Johnson SL, Beck AD, Martinez AD, Hughes SO. The Food Parenting Inventory: Factor structure, reliability, and validity in a low-income, Latina sample. Appetite. 2019;134:111-119.

Hughes SO, Power TG, Baker SS, Barale KV, Aragon C, Lanigan JD, Parker L, Silva Garcia K, Auld G, Johnston CA, Micheli N. Short-term efficacy of a childhood obesity prevention program designed to pair feeding content with nutrition education. Childhood Obesity. 2022.