Youngshin Han; Su An kim; Yoonna Lee; Jeongmee Kim

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The Development and Validation of Eating Behavior Test Form for Infants and Young Children: Youngshin Han, Su An kim, Yoonna Lee, Jeongmee Kim; Korean Journal of Community Nutrition 2015;20(1):1-10.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5720/kjcn.2015.20.1.1
Published online: February 28, 2015

¹Environmental Health Center for Atopic Diseases, Samsung Medical Center Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

²Shingu College, Department of Food and Nutrition, Seongnam, Korea.

³Hansol Education Research Center, Hansol Education Co. Ltd., Seoul, Korea.

Corresponding author: Jeongmee Kim. 6F Hansol Education Bldg., 361 Worldcup buk-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul 121-914, Korea. Tel: (02) 2001-5765, Fax: (02) 2001-5335, jeongmeex@eduhansol.co.kr

• Received: October 11, 2014 • Revised: December 31, 2015 • Accepted: January 19, 2015

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Abstract

Objectives
This study was conducted to develop and validate Eating Behaviors Test form (EBT) for infants and young children, including eating behaviors of their parents and parental feeding practices.
Methods
Draft version of EBT form was developed after a pretest on 83 mothers. It was consisted of 42 questions including 3 components; eating behavior of children, eating behavior of parents, and parental feeding practices. Using these questionnaires, the first survey was conducted on 320 infants and children, 1 to 6 year old, for exploratory factor analysis, and the second survey was collected on 731 infants and children for confirmatory factor analysis.
Results
Exploratory factor analysis on 42 questions of EBT form resulted in 3 factor model for children's eating behavior, 3 factor model for parents' eating behavior, and 1 factor model for parental feeding practices. Three factors for children's eating behavior could be explained as follows; factor 1, pickiness (reliability α=0.89; explanation of variance=27.79), factor 2, over activity (α=0.80, explanation of variance=16.51), and factor 3, irregularity (α=0.59, explanation of variance=10.01). Three factors for mother's eating behavior could be explained as follows; factor 1,irregularities (α=0.73, explanation of variance=21.73), factor 2, pickiness (α=0.65, explanation of variance= 20.16), and factor 3, permissiveness (α=0.60, explanation of variance=19.13). Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed an acceptance fit for these models. Internal consistencies for these factors were above 0.6.
Conclusions
Our results indicated that EBT form is a valid tool to measure comprehensive eating and feeding behaviors for infants and young children.
Keywords: infants; young children; eating behavior; factor analysis; feeding practice

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Fig. 1

The confirmatory factor analysis of eating behavior test for children

Fig. 2

The confirmatory factor analysis of eating behavior test for mothers

Table 1

Demographic characteristic of the study participants (N=1051)

1) Mean±SD (Range)

Table 2

Exploratory factor analysis of eating behavior test for the early childhood (N=320)

1) Refer to Supplement 1

Table 3

Exploratory factor analysis of eating behavior test for mothers (N=320)

1) Refer to Supplement 2

Table 4

Internal consistency of eating behavior test for early childhood (N=731)

Table 5

Test-retest reliability of eating behavior test (N=113)

^**: p < 0.01

Table 6

Goodness of fit measures of eating behavior test (N=731)

^**: p < 0.01

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Korean J Community Nutr. 2015;20(1):1-10. Published online February 28, 2015

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The Development and Validation of Eating Behavior Test Form for Infants and Young Children

Table 1

Demographic characteristic of the study participants (N=1051)

1) Mean±SD (Range)

Table 2

Exploratory factor analysis of eating behavior test for the early childhood (N=320)

1) Refer to Supplement 1

Table 3

Exploratory factor analysis of eating behavior test for mothers (N=320)

1) Refer to Supplement 2

Table 4

Internal consistency of eating behavior test for early childhood (N=731)

Table 5

Test-retest reliability of eating behavior test (N=113)

^**: p < 0.01

Table 6

Goodness of fit measures of eating behavior test (N=731)

^**: p < 0.01

Table 1 Demographic characteristic of the study participants (N=1051)

1) Mean±SD (Range)

Table 2 Exploratory factor analysis of eating behavior test for the early childhood (N=320)

1) Refer to Supplement 1

Table 3 Exploratory factor analysis of eating behavior test for mothers (N=320)

1) Refer to Supplement 2

Table 4 Internal consistency of eating behavior test for early childhood (N=731)