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Kimberley M. Mallan is affiliated with the Australian Catholic University in Australia. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on medicine and psychology with a notable emphasis on public health, environmental and occupational health, psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, epidemiology, and applied psychology.

Mallan's scholarly work addresses various aspects of nutrition, feeding behaviors, and health in children. The main topics of their research include obesity, physical activity, diet, child nutrition and feeding issues, eating disorders and behaviors, breastfeeding practices and influences, telemedicine and telehealth implementation, digital mental health interventions, and attachment and relationship dynamics.

Frequent publication venues for Mallan comprise Appetite, Research Square, Australian Psychologist, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, and Childhood Obesity.

Their recent papers include the following:

  • Attitudes of Australian psychologists towards the delivery of therapy via video conferencing technology, 2020, Australian Psychologist
  • Non-responsive feeding practices mediate the relationship between maternal and child obesogenic eating behaviours, 2020, Appetite
  • Comparison of Early Feeding Practices in Mother-Father Dyads and Possible Generalization of an Efficacious Maternal Intervention to Fathers' Feeding Practices: A Secondary Analysis, 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • The correlation between different operationalisations of parental restrictive feeding practices and children's eating behaviours: Systematic review and meta-analyses, 2022, Appetite
  • Associations between appetitive traits, dietary patterns and weight status of children attending the School Kids Intervention Program, 2020, Nutrition and Health

Mallan has collaborated frequently with several coauthors including Elena Jansen, Rebecca Byrne, Lynne Daniels, Anna Say, and Xochitl de la Piedad Garcia.

Best Publications

  • Evaluation of an intervention to promote protective infant feeding practices to prevent childhood obesity: outcomes of the NOURISH RCT at 14 months of age and 6 months post the first of two intervention modules

    Lynne Daniels;Kimberley Mallan;Diana Battistutta;Jan Nicholson

  • Toddlers' food preferences. The impact of novel food exposure, maternal preferences and food neophobia

    Anika J. Howard;Kimberley M. Mallan;Rebecca Byrne;Anthea Magarey

  • Outcomes of an Early Feeding Practices Intervention to Prevent Childhood Obesity

    Lynne Allison Daniels;Kimberley Margaret Mallan;Jan Maree Nicholson;Diana Battistutta

  • Mealtime Structure and Responsive Feeding Practices Are Associated With Less Food Fussiness and More Food Enjoyment in Children.

    Julia M. Finnane;Elena Jansen;Kimberley M. Mallan;Lynne A. Daniels

  • The feeding practices and structure questionnaire: construction and initial validation in a sample of Australian first-time mothers and their 2-year olds

    Elena Jansen;Kimberley M Mallan;Jan M Nicholson;Lynne A Daniels;Lynne A Daniels

  • Child eating behavior outcomes of an early feeding intervention to reduce risk indicators for child obesity: The NOURISH RCT

    Lynne Allison Daniels;Lynne Allison Daniels;Kimberley Margaret Mallan;Diana Battistutta;Jan Maree Nicholson

  • The role of fathers in child feeding: perceived responsibility and predictors of participation

    Kimberley Mallan;Michaela Nothard;Karen Thorpe;Jan Nicholson

  • Food neophobia and its association with diet quality and weight in children aged 24 months: a cross sectional study

    Rebecca A Perry;Kimberley M Mallan;Jasly Koo;Chelsea E Mauch

  • Bidirectional associations between mothers’ feeding practices and child eating behaviours

    Elena Jansen;Kate Nicole Williams;Kimberley M. Mallan;Jan M. Nicholson

  • Maternal report of young children’s eating styles. Validation of the Children’s Eating Behaviour Questionnaire in three ethnically diverse Australian samples

    Kimberley M Mallan;W Liu;R J Mehta;Lynne Allison Daniels;Lynne Allison Daniels

  • Contemporary Research on Parenting: Conceptual, Methodological, and Translational Issues

    Thomas G. Power;Ester F C Sleddens;Jerica Berge;Lauren Connell

  • Associations between infant temperament and early feeding practices. A cross-sectional study of Australian mother-infant dyads from the NOURISH randomised controlled trial.

    S McMeekin;E Jansen;Kimberley M Mallan;Jan M Nicholson

  • The relationship between appetite and food preferences in British and Australian children.

    Alison Fildes;Alison Fildes;Alison Fildes;Kimberley M Mallan;Kimberley M Mallan;Lucy Cooke;Cornelia H M van Jaarsveld;Cornelia H M van Jaarsveld

  • Maternal feeding practices and fussy eating in toddlerhood: a discordant twin analysis

    Holly A. Harris;Holly A. Harris;Alison Fildes;Kimberley M. Mallan;Kimberley M. Mallan;Clare H. Llewellyn

  • The timing of solid introduction in an 'obesogenic' environment: a narrative review of the evidence and methodological issues.

    Lynne Daniels;Kimberley M. Mallan;Alison Fildes;Alison Fildes;Jacinda Wilson

  • Satiety responsiveness in toddlerhood predicts energy intake and weight status at four years of age

    Kimberley M. Mallan;Smita Nambiar;Anthea M. Magarey;Lynne A. Daniels

  • Recruiting and engaging new mothers in nutrition research studies: lessons from the Australian NOURISH randomised controlled trial.

    Lynne Allison Daniels;Lynne Allison Daniels;Jacinda L Wilson;Kimberley M Mallan;Seema Mihrshahi

  • Appetitive traits associated with higher and lower body mass index: evaluating the validity of the adult eating behaviour questionnaire in an Australian sample

    Kimberley M. Mallan;Kimberley M. Mallan;Alison Fildes;Alison Fildes;Xochitl de la Piedad Garcia;Jayne Drzezdzon

  • Child dietary and eating behavior outcomes up to 3.5 years after an early feeding intervention: The NOURISH RCT

    Anthea Magarey;Chelsea Mauch;Kimberley Mallan;Kimberley Mallan;Rebecca Perry

  • The Feeding Practices and Structure Questionnaire (FPSQ-28): A parsimonious version validated for longitudinal use from 2 to 5 years.

    Elena Jansen;Kate E. Williams;Kimberley M. Mallan;Kimberley M. Mallan;Jan M. Nicholson;Jan M. Nicholson

  • Slithering snakes, angry men and out-group members : what and whom are we evolved to fear?

    Kimberley M. Mallan;Ottmar V. Lipp;Benjamin Cochrane

  • The Feeding Practices and Structure Questionnaire (FPSQ-28): A parsimonious version validated for longitudinal use from 2-5 years

    Elena Jansen;Kate Elizabeth Williams;Kimberley M. Mallan;Jan Nicholson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan M. Nicholson
Jan M. Nicholson La Trobe University
Ottmar V. Lipp
Ottmar V. Lipp Curtin University
Karen Thorpe
Karen Thorpe University of Queensland
Deborah J. Terry
Deborah J. Terry University of Queensland
Jordana K. Bayer
Jordana K. Bayer La Trobe University
Jerica M. Berge
Jerica M. Berge University of Minnesota
Thomas G. Power
Thomas G. Power Washington State University

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