How parents’ feeding styles, attitudes, and multifactorial aspects are associated with feeding difficulties in children

Table 4 Logistic regression models sociodemographic variables and parent styles for feeding difficulties.

Predictors	n ^a	OR	95%CI	p
Gender of parents (male)	319	0.57	(0.31–1.05)	0.073
Gender of child (female)	319	2.06	(1.19–3.58)	0.010
Child age (years old)	319	0.89	(0.75–1.06)	0.204
Parent style (authoritative)	319
Authoritarian		1.00	(0.52–1.92)	0.994
Indulgent		0.13	(0.06–0.27)	< 0.001
Uninvolved		0.36	(0.11–1.21)	0.098
Parents’ depression (yes)	298	2.05	(0.98–4.28)	0.056
Parents’ FD (yes)	313	3.16	(1.77–5.64)	< 0.001
Child share family menu (yes)	302	0.43	(0.18–0.99)	0.049

Note: Mutually adjusted model for child’s gender, guardian’s gender, child’s age, history of diseases and parental style classification
Category of reference: = presence of FD in children reported by fathers and mothers; FD = feeding difficulties; OR = odds ratio; 95%CI = 95% confidence interval; ^a: sample size for each regression model; significance level p < 0.05

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