Feeding At Sleep Time (FeAST) Scale: Assessing Risk for Developing Early Childhood Caries in South Indian Toddlers.

Purpose: The Feeding At Sleep Time (FeAST) scale was developed and validated to assess sleep time feeding practices for children younger than three years. The purpose of this study was to describe the process of scoring and find an optimum clinical cutoff score for early childhood caries (ECC) using receiver operating characteristics (ROC) analysis, thereby enabling researchers and clinicians to assess risk for devel- oping ECC.

Methods: The FeAST scale was administered to mothers of 527 toddlers, aged 12 to 36 months, attending four outpatient depart- ments.