Table 2.

Rate^† of mealtime behaviors for baseline and post-treatment meals

	Baseline	Post-treatment	Cohen’s d
	M±SD	M±SD
Child Eating
Bites	0.65±0.27	0.54±0.17	0.63
Sips	0.04±0.02	0.03±0.02	0.32
Child Behavior
Compliance to requests	0.02±0.02	0.006±0.007	1.13
Noncompliance to requests	0.008±0.005	0.004±0.009	0.50
Child talk	0.42±0.16	0.28±0.17	0.88
Request for food	0.007±0.009	0.013±0.023	−0.30
Play	0.009±0.02	0.03±0.04	−0.64
Away from table	0.07±0.06	0.10±0.18	−0.23
Refuse	0.01±0.01	0.008±0.02	0.35
Parent Behavior
Direct requests to eat	0.14±0.008	0.005±0.01	0.77
Indirect requests to eat	0.02±0.01	0.01±0.01	0.61
Parent talk	0.45±0.24	0.32±0.21	0.56
Coax	0.04±0.03	0.01±0.03	0.79
Physical Prompt	0.009±0.01	0.006±0.01	0.31
Reinforcement	0.01±0.01	0.04±0.04	−0.98
Feed	0.009±0.02	0.001±0.002	0.63

^†Rate= frequency of the behavior per interval / number of intervals in the meal; families recorded one dinner meal at baseline and post-treatment, respectively.