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A Rochester Institute of Technology researcher has validated a tool measuring adherence to a popular child feeding approach used by pediatricians, nutritionists, social workers and child psychologists to assess parents' feeding practices and prevent feeding problems.
The best-practice approach, known as the Satter Division of Responsibility in Feeding, has now been rigorously tested and peer reviewed, resulting in the quantifiable tool sDOR.2-6y. The questionnaire will become a standard parent survey for professionals and researchers working in the early childhood development field, predicts lead researcher Barbara Lohse, director of RIT's Wegmans School of Health and Nutrition.
"We've shown that the Satter survey can be used to measure that a child from 2 to 6 years old is at nutrition risk," Lohse said. "It's important to identify that early and prevent it from continuing because the last thing we want to have is a child at nutrition risk. They're not going to grow or develop correctly."