Anna M. Quigg

TL;DR: A 2-item FI screen was sensitive, specific, and valid among low-income families with young children, enabling providers to target services that ameliorate the health and developmental consequences associated with FI.

TL;DR: While breastfeeding initiation rates approach Healthy People 2010 goals, breastfeeding duration remains far below these goals, race/ethnicity differences in experiences related to breastfeeding cessation suggest that culturally sensitive breastfeeding interventions are necessary.

TL;DR: Recommendations to prevent the developmental loss associated with ID and IDA are to reduce the incidence of these conditions by efforts to prevent premature birth, delay cord clamping, ensure adequate maternal iron status, provide iron-rich complementary foods, and ensure access to postnatal interventions that promote responsive mother-infant interaction patterns and early learning opportunities for infants.

TL;DR: As stressors increased, odds of fair/poor health, hospitalizations, and developmental risk increased and odds of well-child status decreased and interactions between WIC participation and stressors favored WIC participants over nonparticipants in dual stressor families.

TL;DR: Toddlerhood is an optimal time to address healthful dietary patterns and to help adolescent mothers influence grocery purchasing decisions and to establish healthful nutritional patterns and reduce pediatric obesity.