title: The Montreal Children's Hospital Feeding Scale: A brief bilingual screening tool for identifying feeding problems.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To establish the psychometric characteristics of a newly developed, brief bilingual 14-item parent report tool (The Montreal Children's Hospital Feeding Scale [MCH-Feeding Scale]) designed to identify feeding problems in children six months to six years of age.
  
  
  METHODS
  To establish construct validity, 198 mothers of children visiting community paediatrician's offices (normative sample) and 174 mothers of children referred to a feeding clinic (clinical sample) completed the scale. Test-retest reliability was obtained by the re-administration of the MCH-Feeding Scale to 25 children in each sample.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Excellent construct validity was confirmed when the mean [± SD] scores of the normative and clinical samples were compared (32.65±12.73 versus 60.48±13.04, respectively; P<0.01). Test-retest reliabilities were high for both groups (normative r=0.845, clinical r=0.92).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The MCH-Feeding Scale can be used by paediatricians and other health care professionals for quick identification of feeding problems.
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Feeding Program;
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ramsay
authors.forename: Chantal
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Martel
authors.forename: Mafalda
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Porporino
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zygmuntowicz