Once the child begins consuming complimentary foods, the PediEAT is the more appropriate tool to administer. This tool assesses infant and child feeding behaviors of liquids and solids from 6 months through 7 years of age. The PediEAT has 78 items and 4 subscales: Physiologic Symptoms, Problematic Mealtime Behaviors, Selective /Restrictive Eating, and Oral Processing. Parents score each item on a 6-point Likert scale (Never, Almost Never, Sometimes, Often, Almost Always, Always). Total and total subscale scores are derived with higher scores indicating more problematic symptoms of a feeding problem. Percentiles and T scores represented by the total and subscale scores are provided in the PediEAT Scoring Guidelines.
A 10-item screening tool using the most distinctive items of the PediEAT are also available for 3 age groups: PediEAT 10-Item Screener 6-15 months, PediEAT 10-Item Screener 15-30 months, and the PediEAT 10-Item Screener 2.5-7 years.
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