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). CONCLUSION: The MCH-Feeding Scale can be used by paediatricians and other health care professionals for quick identification of feeding problems.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 147-151 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Paediatrics and Child Health |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Assessment of health care needs
- Child
- Failure to thrive
- Feeding and eating disorders of childhood
- Feeding behaviour
- Infant
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