Mother’s feeding behaviours on overweight toddler

Abstract

Background: The prevalence of overweight toddlers increased in worldwide. One of the causes is unbalanced nutritional intake which is influenced by the eating behaviour of children and parents. But in fact, many mother’s behaviours in feeding is not appropriate. Some quantitative research linking mother’s behaviour with the nutritional status of child but still few illustrating how mother’s feeding behaviour is especially at toddler overweight. The purpose of this research was to explore mother’s feeding behaviours on overweight toddler.

Methods:Qualitative research design with a phenomenological approach. Depth interviews were conducted with six mothers who had toddler overweight and six another family as triangulation data. Research was also conducted with observation and FGD. Data were processed and analyzed using seven step data analysis from Colaizzi.

Results: The findings of this study was classified into four main themes: search the source information about nutrition and identified kinds of food and drink, the decision-making and planning the provision to feeding children, the implementation of feeding on children, support and obstacle feeding in children.

Conclusions:All of mother could not try to get the complete and right information yet and also make correct plan on feeding for child optimally. Mother and family feeding pattern inclined give freedom for child to consuming the food that haven’t unbalance nutrition excess intake. Mother and family couldn’t control the increasing of children’s overweight. Mother should search the correct information, so that mother could make a good decision for feeding their children.