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Translation and Cross-Cultural Adaptation of a Brazilian Version of the Child Feeding Questionnaire1 1 Article derived from master's thesis of the first and second authors under supervision of the fourth author, defended in 2009 and 2012 respectively, in the Graduate Program in Psychobiology and Psychology at Faculdade de Filosofia,Ciências e Letras of RibeirãoPretoof the Universidade de São Paulo. Support: Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES).

Tradução e Adaptação Transcultural da Versão Brasileira do Questionário de Alimentação da Criança

Traducción y Adaptación Cultural de la Versión Brasileña del Cuestionario de la Alimentación del Niño

Abstract:

The Child Feeding Questionnaire (CFQ) assesses parental attitudes, beliefs and practices about child feeding and obesity proneness. This research aimed to translate and to test the reliability of the CFQ and to evaluate this instrument in Brazilian families. The participants were 300 mothers and 300 children, aging from 2 to 11 years old, of both sexes. The translation, synthesis, back-translation, evaluation by an expert committee and pre-test were performed. Besides the application of questionnaire to mothers, data regarding anthropometric measurements in mothers and children was collected. The indexes of content validity index, test-retest reliability and internal consistencies were good. The parental factors Perceived parent weight, Perceived child weight, Concern about child weight, Restriction, Pressure to eat and Monitoring on child feeding were associated with overweight in childhood. In conclusion, these results highlight the validity and utility of the Brazilian version of the CFQ.

Keywords:
eating behavior; obesity in children; questionnaire; translating

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