Publications by authors named "Z Nas"

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  • Food fussiness (FF) is when kids are picky eaters and don't want to try new foods, and it's something many parents worry about.
  • This study looked at 4,804 British twins to see what causes food fussiness from being a toddler to a teenager, checking in on them several times as they grew up.
  • The results showed that most of the differences in food fussiness were due to genetics, meaning it's likely passed down from parents, especially as kids got older.
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Aims: The present study was carried out methodologically to provide the Turkish equivalence of the Self-Report Instrument to Measure Patient Safety Attitudes, Skills, and Knowledge and to determine its reliability and validity.

Methods: This methodological study included 317 nurses. The back-translation method was used to test the linguistic equivalence of the methodological scale.

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Background: Obesity and eating disorders commonly co-occur and might share common risk factors. Appetite avidity is an established neurobehavioural risk factor for obesity from early life, but the role of appetite in eating disorder susceptibility is unclear. We aimed to examine longitudinal associations between appetitive traits in early childhood and eating disorder symptoms in adolescence.

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Objective: Nonresponsive parental feeding practices are associated with poorer appetite self-regulation in children. It is unknown whether this relationship extends beyond childhood to be prospectively associated with the onset of eating disorder (ED) symptoms in adolescence. This exploratory study therefore investigated prospective associations between early childhood parental feeding practices and adolescent ED symptoms and disordered eating behaviors.

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Excess weight gained during the early years and, in particular, rapid weight gain in the first 2 years of life, are a major risk factors for adult obesity. The growing consensus is that childhood obesity develops from a complex interaction between genetic susceptibility and exposure to an 'obesogenic' environment. Behavioural susceptibility theory (BST) was developed to explain the nature of this gene-environment interaction, and why the 'obesogenic' environment does not affect all children equally.

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