Table 3. Descriptive of feeding practices for full sample and by ethnicity.

	Number of mothers using practice (%)	Frequency of feeding practices per 10 minutes Mean (S.D)				^p-value
Maternal feeding practices	Number of mothers using practice (%)	Total N=201	Chinese n=121	Malay n=56	Indian n=24	^p-value
Suggestion	188 (93.5)	3.28 (3.11)	3.02 (3.07)	3.44 (2.57)	4.21 (4.24)	0.208

Prompts	187 (93.0)	3.07 (2.94)	2.91 (2.92)	3.81 (3.08)	2.18 (2.41)	0.048

ASP	172 (85.6)	1.80 (1.81)	1.67 (1.57)^a	2.38 (2.30)^b	1.12 (1.25)^a	0.007

CCP	148 (73.6)	1.27 (1.87)	1.24 (2.10)	1.43 (1.49)	1.06 (1.46)	0.701

% ASP	-	24.3 (15.2)	23.3 (14.3)	27.1 (15.3)	23.3 (18.9)	0.284

Restriction	102 (50.7)	0.49 (0.71)	0.55 (0.74)	0.40 (0.57)	0.36 (0.82)	0.274

Questioning child’s choice	51 (25.4)	0.17 (0.33)	0.23 (0.38)^a	0.08 (0.19)^b	0.04 (0.12)^b	0.002

Talking about food/ child’s eating	195 (97.0)	3.99 (2.93)	4.21 (3.14)	3.89 (2.50)	3.10 (2.63)	0.228

Negative comments	112 (55.7)	0.54 (0.84)	0.63 (0.91)	0.37 (0.55)	0.49 (0.96)	0.155

Neutral comments	191 (95.0)	2.74 (2.30)	2.89 (2.47)	2.71 (2.01)	2.08 (1.98)	0.288

Positive comments	126 (62.7)	0.71 (0.91)	0.69 (0.89)	0.81 (1.00)	0.53 (0.76)	0.429

Hurrying	127 (63.2)	1.20 (2.09)	1.30 (2.34)^ab	1.44 (1.83)^a	0.19 (0.42)^b	0.035

Slowing	80 (39.8)	0.47 (0.84)	0.46 (0.87)	0.42 (0.71)	0.58 (0.94)	0.742

Physically feeding child*	12 (6.0)	0.05 (0.24)	0.03 (0.17)	0.06 (0.25)	0.15 (0.45)	0.087

Note: “Physically feeding child” was removed from further analysis as incidence was too low. Items with same superscript (a, b) are not significantly different (p>0.05). Abbreviations: ASP: autonomy-supportive prompt to eat; CCP: coercive-controlling prompt to eat. % ASP represents the percentage of total prompts to eat that were of the ASP type.