{"doi":"10.1016/j.physbeh.2025.115104","title":"Brief parent-report measure of slowness in eating is associated with weight status in children with cystic fibrosis over a 3-year follow-up","abstract":"OBJECTIVE: Eating behaviors are potential targets to improve outcomes including metabolic health in those with CF. We aimed to test whether slowness in eating was associated with weight status over 3 year follow-up in children with CF, using the slowness in eating subscale from the Child Eating Behavior Questionnaire (CEBQ), a brief parent-report instrument. METHODS: Parents of 60 patients (mean age 7.7±3.2; 66.7% male) completed the CEBQ, including the 4-item subscale assessing slowness in eating (CEBQ-SE), during regular clinic hours, at study entry. Body Mass Index z-scores (BMIz) were calculated using anthropometric data collected at baseline and at 1, 2, and 3 year follow-up for use in Linear Mixed Models (LMM). RESULTS: Children's CEBQ-SE scores were used to create 3 CEBQ-SE tertiles. Based on model estimates, at all time-points, the low CEBQ-SE tertile (fastest eaters) had a greater BMIz (Baseline: 0.46, Yr 1: 0.58; Yr 2: 0.64; Yr 3: 0.67) than both the medium CEBQ-SE tertile (Baseline: -0.09, Yr 1: -0.06, Yr 2: -0.03, Yr 3: -0.02) and high CEBQ-SE tertile (Baseline: -0.05, Yr 1: 0.08, Yr 2: 0.10, Yr 3: 0.01). Sensitivity analyses either omitting children who had ever used a gastric tube, or children who had never been on appetite-stimulating medication, demonstrated the utility of these interventions to promote reaching weight status goals, particularly for children with low BMIz and slow eating. CONCLUSION: Low slowness in eating at baseline was associated with high BMIz 1, 2, and 3 years later in children with CF. The CEBQ-SE subscale could identify children who could benefit from early intervention to optimize weight status and eating behavior.","journal":"Physiology & Behavior","year":2025,"id":574843,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9144,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2025-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":571278,"name":"Zeyi Wang","orcid":"0000-0002-2786-6969","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":295700,"name":"Afroditi Papantoni","orcid":"0000-0001-6539-095X","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1270694,"name":"Aerial Sheltry","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":376963,"name":"Elena Jansen","orcid":"0000-0002-6051-4148","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":437769,"name":"Brian Caffo","orcid":"0000-0002-0793-9497","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":295702,"name":"Timothy H. Moran","orcid":"0000-0001-9877-8723","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":6960,"name":"Robert L. Findling","orcid":"0000-0002-7654-5782","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":444983,"name":"Peter J. Mogayzel","orcid":"0000-0003-1880-0850","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":295703,"name":"Susan Carnell","orcid":"0000-0001-6200-3635","position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":922906,"name":"Sarah Ann Duck","orcid":"0000-0002-3362-6021","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":25,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:57:44.572630Z","pmid":"40947081","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}