Responsive Feeding Study
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Bottle Feeding
In brief
In the present study, we tested a novel approach to understanding infant bottle-feeding interactions: experimentally manipulating bottle-feeding conditions to better understand maternal and infant influences on overfeeding, as well as individual differences in risk for overfeeding. Specifically, we observed mother-infant dyads during a typical, "mother-led" feeding, during which mothers were given no instruction regarding how or how much to feed their infants (hereafter referred to as a "typical feeding" \[TF\]), as well as during an "infant-led" (IL) feeding, wherein we minimized the mothers' influence on the feeding and ensured the feed was in response to the infants' hunger and fullness cues. Using this within-subject, objective, and experimental approach, the present study aimed to: 1) directly measure the extent to which overfeeding occurs during bottle-feeding and 2) describe the characteristics of infants and mothers that overfeed during bottle-feeding.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02284152
- Run by
- Drexel University
- People needed
- 32
- Starts
- 2010-01-01
- Expected to finish
- 2012-03-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2014-11-05
Who can join
Age: any, up to 1. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Formula-feeding
- Prior to the introduction of solid foods
- Infants 0 to 6 months of age
- Mothers 18 to 40 years of age
You may not qualify if…
- Exclusively breast-feeding
- Preterm
- Medical conditions that interfered with feeding
Where it is running
- California Polytechnic State University — San Luis Obispo, California, United States
- Drexel University — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Monell Chemical Senses Center — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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