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Overview

Leann L. Birch was affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their research primarily focused on topics related to child nutrition and feeding issues, obesity, physical activity, diet, breastfeeding practices and influences, eating disorders and behaviors, infant development and preterm care, food security and health in diverse populations, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Over their career, they published extensively in the field of Medicine, contributing to subfields including psychiatry and mental health, public health, environmental and occupational health, clinical psychology, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, and epidemiology.

The following are some of their recent papers with publication year and venue:

  • Effect of a responsive parenting intervention on child emotional overeating is mediated by reduced maternal use of food to soothe: The INSIGHT RCT, 2020, Pediatric Obesity
  • INSIGHT responsive parenting intervention effects on child appetite and maternal feeding practices through age 3 years, 2020, Appetite
  • Effects of the Sleep SAAF responsive parenting intervention on rapid infant weight gain: A randomized clinical trial of African American families, 2022, Appetite
  • INSIGHT responsive parenting educational intervention for firstborns is associated with growth of second-born siblings, 2021, Obesity
  • Sex Differences in Maternal Restrictive Feeding Practices in the Intervention Nurses Start Infants Growing on Healthy Trajectories Study, 2021, Academic Pediatrics

Leann L. Birch collaborated frequently with the following researchers:

  • Jennifer S. Savage
  • Ian M. Paul
  • Caree Cotwright
  • Michele E. Marini
  • Sarah Stotz

Their work was often published in these journals:

  • Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
  • Pediatric Obesity
  • Appetite
  • UNC Libraries
  • Academic Pediatrics

Best Publications

  • Development of eating behaviors among children and adolescents.

    Leann L. Birch;Jennifer O. Fisher

  • Development of food preferences

    Leann L. Birch

  • Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Child Feeding Questionnaire: A Measure of Parental Attitudes, Beliefs and Practices About Child Feeding and Obesity Proneness

    L.L Birch;J.O Fisher;K Grimm-Thomas;C.N Markey

  • Parental Influence on Eating Behavior: Conception to Adolescence

    Jennifer S. Savage;Jennifer Orlet Fisher;Jennifer Orlet Fisher;Leann L. Birch

  • Childhood overweight: a contextual model and recommendations for future research

    K. K. Davison;L. L. Birch

  • FAMILY ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS INFLUENCING THE DEVELOPING BEHAVIORAL CONTROLS OF FOOD INTAKE AND CHILDHOOD OVERWEIGHT

    Leann Lipps Birch;Kirsten Krahnstoever Davison

  • Does parenting affect children's eating and weight status?

    Alison K Ventura;Leann L Birch

  • Parents' and Children's Adiposity and Eating Style

    Susan L. Johnson;Leann L. Birch

  • Learning to overeat: maternal use of restrictive feeding practices promotes girls’ eating in the absence of hunger

    Leann L Birch;Jennifer Orlet Fisher;Kirsten Krahnstoever Davison

  • Parent‐Child Feeding Strategies and Their Relationships to Child Eating and Weight Status

    Myles S. Faith;Kelley S. Scanlon;Leann L. Birch;Lori A. Francis

  • Restricting access to palatable foods affects children's behavioral response, food selection, and intake

    Jennifer Orlet Fisher;Leann Lipps Birch

  • Mothers' child-feeding practices influence daughters' eating and weight

    Leann L Birch;Jennifer O Fisher

  • Effects of Peer Models' Food Choices and Eating Behaviors on Preschoolers' Food Preferences.

    Leann Lipps Birch

  • Environmental and societal factors affect food choice and physical activity: rationale, influences, and leverage points.

    Sarah L. Booth;James F. Sallis;Cheryl Ritenbaugh;James O. Hill

  • Restricting access to foods and children's eating.

    Jennifer Orlet Fisher;L. L. Birch

  • Parental influences on young girls' fruit and vegetable, micronutrient, and fat intakes

    Jennifer Orlet Fisher;Diane C. Mitchell;Helen Smiciklas Wright;Leann Lipps Birch

  • Eating in the absence of hunger and overweight in girls from 5 to 7 y of age

    Jennifer Orlet Fisher;Leann L Birch

  • Dietary recommendations for children and adolescents: a guide for practitioners.

    Samuel S. Gidding;Barbara A. Dennison;Leann L. Birch;Stephen R. Daniels

  • What kind of exposure reduces children's food neophobia? Looking vs tasting

    Leann Lipps Birch;Linda McPhee;B.C. Shoba;Edna Pirok

  • Influences on the Development of Children's Eating Behaviours: From Infancy to Adolescence.

    Leann Birch;Jennifer S Savage;Alison Ventura

  • Preventing childhood obesity: what works?

    L L Birch;A K Ventura

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer O. Fisher
Jennifer O. Fisher Temple University
Kirsten K. Davison
Kirsten K. Davison Boston College
Barbara J. Rolls
Barbara J. Rolls Pennsylvania State University
Stewart G. Trost
Stewart G. Trost University of Queensland
Cynthia A. Stifter
Cynthia A. Stifter Pennsylvania State University
Kateryna D. Makova
Kateryna D. Makova Pennsylvania State University
Charlotte N. Markey
Charlotte N. Markey Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Maureen M. Black
Maureen M. Black University of Maryland, Baltimore
Alice H. Lichtenstein
Alice H. Lichtenstein Tufts University
Julia Steinberger
Julia Steinberger University of Minnesota

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