The development and field test of MICOT: a pilot study, v1
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The development and field test of a mealtime interaction clinical observation tool: a pilot study.
IRAS ID
189338
Contact name
Alison Jackson
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 11 months, 21 days
Research summary
Feeding difficulties in children, especially in instances where the child is required to be tube-fed for a period of time and then weaned to oral feeding, can be anxiety provoking for parents. This can lead to stressful mealtimes and unhelpful interactions between parents and their children, which can maintain feeding difficulties.
Clinical psychologists work with families to reduce anxiety and improve mealtime interactions. They do this by videotaping and reviewing with he family, a typical mealtime in the family’s home. The purpose of this is to highlight helpful and unhelpful interactions and suggest ways to improve the child’s feeding. To date, there are no structured ‘tools’ that help in this assessment and intervention when using videotaped mealtimes.
Aim: To develop and field test a family mealtime interaction clinical observation tool that can be used during assessment and clinical intervention with children with feeding difficulties and their families.
Clinical Psychologists and other health professionals will take part in focus groups to watch a videotaped mealtime and discuss together the content of the video and the process. From this, an observation tool will be developed. It will then be used by the researcher, a clinical psychologist and another health professional, to watch 9 videotaped mealtimes, to test its usefulness.
Families, who have previously had a mealtime videotaped by the Royal Hospital for Children feeding team, will receive an information sheet and be asked to consent to their video being used for this research. They will not need to attend the feeding clinic.
This research will provide a structured mealtime clinical observation tool to be used by clinical psychologists during assessment and clinical intervention with families with children with feeding difficulties.REC name
East of England - Cambridge East Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/EE/0035
Date of REC Opinion
22 Jan 2016
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion