Rethinking Responsive Feeding: New Insights from Bangladesh
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Feeding young children is a complex and nuanced process that goes far beyond simply providing nutritious food. How caregivers interact with children during mealtimes can have profound effects on eating behaviours, growth and development. An interdisciplinary team of researchers in early child health, nutrition, and development from RTI International, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, conducted groundbreaking work to refine our understanding of responsive feeding – the back-and-forth process between caregivers and children during mealtimes. Their research in Bangladesh provides new insights into measuring responsive feeding behaviours and highlights the importance of considering the emotional context of meals.
Author: Maureen Black
Language: English
Subfield: Nutrition and Dietetics
Field: Nursing
Domain: Health Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4407133787