Table 4.

Parents’ and health professionals’ rating of interventions as essential on round 1 and 2 of the Delphi survey

Intervention	Round 1		Round 2
	Parents N=81 %	Health professionals N=76 %	Parents N=61 %	Health professionals N=61 %
Modifying environment	67	87	77	95
Positioning	92	97	96	100
Modifying equipment	76	87	93	90
Scheduling of meals	53	82	50	83
Modifying consistency of food or drink	79	86	79	96
Modifying other aspects of food or drink	74	75	86	83
Modifying placement of food	68	79	75	90
Enhancing communication	76	82	86	90
Visual supports	52	63	52	72
Responding to a child’s cues for feeding	83	94	93	96
Pace of feeding	77	96	89	100
Physical support	72	69	82	81
Oral and sensory desensitisation	72	68	82	75
Oral-motor exercises	73	40	70	35
Graded exposure to new food	66	85	70	84
Graded exposure to new textures	68	81	76	81
Changing behaviour at mealtimes	57	63	58	56
Modelling	80	82	77	83
Training to self-feed	68	47	55	46
Support for parents	81	84	95	96
Psychological support for child	72	63	77	59
Medication	78	86	87	91
Energy supplements	62	74	69	73
Sharing information	90	95	100	97
Vitamin or nutritional supplements	68	68	85	75

Bold values denote a rating of 'essential' (score 7-9) by ≥67% within the stakeholder group. Shaded grey cells denote agreement by both stakeholder groups that the item was 'essential' (score 7-9) ≥67%.