Analysing the eating habit of the children who has autism spectrum disorder and children with typical development and the eating attitudes of parents with regards to some demographic variables

22^nd World Congress on PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE

July 31-August 01, 2019 | Amsterdam, Netherlands

Nur Sena Oz, Pinar Bayhan

Hacettepe University, Turkey

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Clin Psychol Cog Sci

Abstract :

Eating problems may accure during early childhood. If the eating problems origin is not physiological, it can make think the primary relations. For this reason, the aim is analysing of the eating habit of the children who have Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and children with Typical Development (TD) and the eating attitudes of parents how is affected from children age, gender, birth time; parent ages, educations, jobs; family types and siblings.

180 parents who have children's aged 3-5, 90 TD and 90 ASD took a part of the research from preschools and special education and rehabilitation centres during January-May, 2018 in Turkey. Brief Assessment of Mealtime Behavior in Children (BAMBIC) and Children’s Eating Behavior Questionnaire (CEBQ) are used for indicating the children’s eating habit and Parents Mealtime Action Scale (PMAS) is used for indicating the parent’s mealtime attitudes toward their children. In addition, personal information form used to get demographic information. The data which gather from 180 parent’s analysis with statistical pocket programs. T testi, ANOVA, Mann Whitney U and Kruskall Wallis were used depend on number of category numbers and normality distributions.

Regarding to results; children with ASD have more food refusal and disruptive behavior at mealtime when their age is 3. Mothers ages 20-29, their children with ASD and with TD have more food refusal at mealtime. Contrary, of children with ASD have a sibling, they are more enjoyment of food and food responsiveness than no sibling and children with TD. Parents who have a children with ASD have more attitudes that insistence on eating and snack limits.

It considers as an important investigation to intervention and identification the early step of eating problems thanks to analysis eating habits of children with ASD, TD and parents feeding attitudes to compare with demographical features.