title: Maternal worries about child underweight mediate and moderate the relationship between child feeding disorders and mother-child feeding interactions.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the role of maternal worries about child underweight and undereating in mother-child feeding interactions with children having a feeding disorder (FD).
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants were 27 children diagnosed with nonorganic-based FD and 28 children without FD. Mothers were interviewed about their worries about child underweight and undereating. Mother-child interactions were videotaped during feeding.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Maternal child weight-related worries acted as both a mediator and a moderator. The more negative mother-child interactions found in the FD group, compared to the control group, were explained by greater maternal worry regarding child underweight. Furthermore, mother-child interactions within the FD group were not at risk per se, but only when coupled with high maternal worries about children's underweight.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Worry about child underweight partially explains the development of negative feeding interactions when having children with FD, signifying clinical implications for the treatment of FD.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel. gueron@bgu.ac.il
authors.forename: Noa
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gueron-Sela
authors.forename: Naama
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Atzaba-Poria
authors.forename: Gal
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Meiri
authors.forename: Baruch
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Yerushalmi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005183:Failure to Thrive / Q000523:psychology; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D019959:Feeding and Eating Disorders of Childhood / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013851:Thinness / Q000523:psychology*