Clare Llewellyn

Biographic Data

ID	4381790
NAME	Clare Llewellyn
GIVEN NAMES	Clare
FAMILY NAME	Llewellyn
SIGNATURE	LLEWELLYN C
AFFILIATIONS	Research Department of Behavioural Science and Health, University College London, London, UK
ORCID	0000-0002-3589-9517
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	28
TOTAL CITATIONS	68
AUTHOR COUNT	28
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	5

Parental use of distraction and portioning to reduce snack intake by children with avid eating behaviour: An experimental laboratory study
Open AccessKatie L Edwards, Abigail Pickard et al.ARTICLEAppetite2026References: 31
INTRODUCTION: Children's avid eating behaviour is characterised by frequent snacking and food responsiveness. Parents need evidence-based advice on specific feeding practices, such as distraction techniques and portioning, that can be used to reduce children's intake of high energy-dense snacks. This experimental laboratory study tested the effectiveness of these feeding practices. METHODS: Parents and children (3-5 years; N = 129) who were ident…
Can Topic Modeling of Local Newspaper Texts Enhance Understanding of Neighborhood Effects on Health
Open AccessEleojo Abubakar, Andreas Grivas et al.ARTICLEGeographical Analysis2025
Social attributes of neighborhoods, like heritage, and low‐level social disorder, are not reflected in official metrics such as deprivation indices. However, research suggests these attributes are important for understanding spatial variations in health and social outcomes. This exploratory study investigated whether recurring themes in local newspaper articles capture meaningful social characteristics that help explain neighborhood health resili…
How labelling of commercial infant food impacts parents’ beliefs about sugar content and related purchasing and feeding decisions: A scoping review
Open AccessRana Conway, Tiffany Denning et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2025
Objective: To assess what is known about how the labelling of commercial infant food impacts parents’ beliefs about a product’s sugar content and their related purchasing and feeding decisions. Design: Mixed methods scoping review. Peer-reviewed studies were identified from six electronic databases, and grey literature was identified via Google, relevant websites, government reports and by contacting organisations. Searches were completed in May …
Daily manifestations of Children's avid eating behaviour and associations with temperament, parental feeding practices and wellbeing
Open AccessAbigail Pickard, Katie L Edwards et al.ARTICLEAppetite2025Cited by: 2References: 46
Recent evidence has identified four distinct eating profiles in 3-5-year-old children in the UK: avid, happy, typical, and avoidant. Among these profiles, children with avid eating behaviour exhibit high responsiveness to food cues, emotional eating, fast eating speed, and low responsiveness to fullness, posing risks for overeating and higher adiposity. Despite the implications, there is limited research on how avid eating manifests and impacts p…
Examining momentary predictors of parental use of structure-based and autonomy support feeding practices with children with avid eating behaviour
Open AccessKatie L Edwards, Abigail Pickard et al.ARTICLEAppetite2025
Validation of the baby eating behaviour questionnaire in a Chilean population
Open AccessAna María Obregón, Macarena Valladares et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2024
Associations between parent and child latent eating profiles and the role of parental feeding practices
Open AccessAbigail Pickard, Claire Farrow et al.ARTICLEAppetite2024Cited by: 2References: 34
Previous research employing the person-centred approach of Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) with parent-reported data of their child's eating behaviour identified four distinct eating profiles in 3-6-year-old children: typical, avid, happy, and avoidant eating (Pickard et al., 2023). In this follow-up study, the same parents were asked to self-report their own eating behaviour (N = 785) and LPA was conducted to determine the latent eating profiles o…
Differences in parental behaviour, emotions, and cognitions between children's eating profiles
Open AccessKatie L Edwards, Abigail Pickard et al.ARTICLEAppetite2024Cited by: 2References: 45
A variety of parent psychological characteristics (e.g., wellbeing) have been related to children's eating behaviour. However, parent-child feeding interactions are reciprocal and complex, including relationships between parental cognitions, emotions, as well as the influence of children's varying appetitive traits. Using a person-centred approach, children's appetitive traits can be clustered into meaningful eating profiles. To date, no research…
Differences in parent psychological characteristics and feeding goals between children’s eating behaviour profiles
Open AccessKatie Edwards, Katie L Edwards et al.ARTICLEAppetite2024
Examining parents’ experiences and challenges of feeding preschool children with avid eating behaviour
Open AccessKatie L Edwards, Jacqueline Blissett et al.ARTICLEAppetite2024Cited by: 5References: 51
Avid eating behaviours, including greater responsiveness to food cues and emotional over-eating, have been linked to child overweight and obesity. Parental feeding practices are modifiable components of a child's food environment and may be key levers for behaviour change in tailored interventions to support parents of children with avid eating behaviour. However, there is a lack of research examining parents' experiences in this context. This st…
Associations between Avid Eating in Parents and Children and the Role of Parental Feeding Practices
Open AccessAbigail Pickard, Helen Croker et al.ARTICLEAppetite2024
Validation of the adult eating behavior questionnaire in a Norwegian sample of adolescents
Open AccessOda Bjørklund, Lars Wichstrøm et al.ARTICLEAppetite2024Cited by: 4References: 50
Eating behaviors are related to health and well-being. To examine stability and change in eating behaviors throughout life, developmentally appropriate measures capturing the same eating behavior dimensions are needed. The newly developed Adult Eating Behavior Questionnaire (AEBQ) builds on the well-established parent-reported Children's Eating Behavior Questionnaire (CEBQ), and together with the corresponding Baby Eating Behavior Questionnaire (…
Reciprocal associations between parental feeding practices and child eating behaviours from toddlerhood to early childhood: Bivariate latent change analysis in the Gemini cohort
Open AccessAlice R Kininmonth, Moritz Herle et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Psychology and…2023
BACKGROUND: Parental feeding practices (PFPs) are a key component of a child's food environment. Parent-child feeding relationships are hypothesised to be bidirectional; however, to date, few large prospective studies have examined this, instead focussing on unidirectional relationships. As such, the direction of relationships between PFPs and children's eating behaviours remains unclear. METHODS: Data were from Gemini, a population-based sample …
Content analysis of on-package formula labelling in Great Britain: Use of marketing messages on infant, follow-on, growing-up and specialist formula
Open AccessRana Conway, Sara Esser et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2023
Objective: To explore on-package formula messaging with reference to legislation and government-issued guidance in Great Britain (GB). Design: Formula products were identified, pictures of all sides of packs collated and on-package text and images were coded. Compliance with both GB legislation and guidance issued by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) was assessed. Setting: All formula packs that were available for sale over the coun…
Parental feeding practices as a response to child appetitive traits in toddlerhood and early childhood: A discordant twin analysis of the Gemini cohort
Open AccessAlice R Kininmonth, Alice Kininmonth et al.ARTICLEAppetite2023
A million snacks: Examining caregivers’ experiences of feeding preschool children with avid eating behaviour
Open AccessKatie Edwards, Katie L Edwards et al.ARTICLEAppetite2023
Prospective associations between parental feeding practices used in toddlerhood and preschool children's appetite vary according to appetite avidity in toddlerhood
Open AccessAlice R Kininmonth, Moritz Herle et al.ARTICLEAppetite2023Cited by: 7References: 52
Parental feeding practices are a key modifiable component of children's food environments. Evidence suggests that certain feeding practices may differentially influence children's eating behaviour or weight, depending on the child's temperament (e.g. emotionality). Building on this work, we tested the hypothesis that feeding practices during toddlerhood influence children's developing eating behaviours differently, depending on their appetite avi…
Identifying an avid eating profile in childhood: Associations with temperament, feeding practices and food insecurity
Open AccessAbigail Pickard, Helen Croker et al.ARTICLEAppetite2023
Identifying an avid eating profile in childhood: Associations with temperament, feeding practices and food insecurity
Open AccessAbigail Pickard, Helen Croker et al.ARTICLEAppetite2023Cited by: 17References: 50
This study aimed to identify distinct eating behaviour profiles in young children and examine how other key predictors of children's eating behaviour, including child temperament, the experience of food insecurity, or parental feeding practices, may vary by identified profiles. An online survey was conducted with 995 parents/carers living in England and Wales (N = 995, Mage = 35.4 years, 80% female, 88% White). Participants reported on their chil…
Potential implications of mandatory calorie-labelling on alcoholic beverages: Attitudes, knowledge, and intentions to change behaviour
Open AccessFlorence Sheen, Jamie Brown et al.ARTICLEAppetite2023
The Lothian Diary Project: Sociolinguistic methods during the Covid-19 lockdown
Open AccessLauren Hall-Lew, Claire Cowie et al.ARTICLELinguistics Vanguard2022
The Lothian Diary Project is an interdisciplinary effort to collect self-recorded audio or video diaries of people’s experiences of COVID-19 in and around Edinburgh, Scotland. In this paper we describe how the project emerged from a desire to support community members. The diaries have been disseminated through public events, a website, an oral history project, and engagement with policymakers. The data collection method encouraged the participat…
Developing a community facilitator‐led participatory learning and action women's group intervention to improve infant feeding, care and dental hygiene practices in South Asian infants: Neon programme
Open AccessLogan Manikam, Shereen Allaham et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2022
INTRODUCTION: The Nurture Early for Optimal Nutrition (NEON) study is a multiphase project that aims to optimize feeding, care and dental hygiene practices in South Asian children <2 years in East London, United Kingdom. The multiphase project uses a participatory learning and action (PLA) approach facilitated by a multilingual community facilitator. In this paper, we elaborate on the process and results of the Intervention Development Phase in t…
Appetite in Preschoolers: Producing Evidence for Tailoring Interventions Effectively - the AppetitE Study Protocol
Open AccessAbigail Pickard, Helen Croker et al.ARTICLEAppetite2022Cited by: 1
Examining the feasibility, validity and reliability of a comprehensive measure of the obesogenic home environment
Open AccessAlice R Kininmonth, Stephanie Schrempft et al.ARTICLEAppetite2021
Are there causal relationships between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and body mass index? Evidence from multiple genetically informed designs
Open AccessChao-Yu Liu, Tabea Schoeler et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020
BACKGROUND: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and body mass index (BMI) are associated. However, it remains unclear whether this association reflects causal relationships in either direction or confounding. Here, we implemented genetically informed methods to examine bidirectional causality and potential confounding. METHODS: Three genetically informed methods were employed: (i) cross-lagged twin-differences analyses to assess bidir…

Identifying an avid eating profile in childhood: Associations with temperament, feeding practices and food insecurity
Open AccessAbigail Pickard, Helen Croker et al.ARTICLEAppetite2023Cited by: 17References: 50
This study aimed to identify distinct eating behaviour profiles in young children and examine how other key predictors of children's eating behaviour, including child temperament, the experience of food insecurity, or parental feeding practices, may vary by identified profiles. An online survey was conducted with 995 parents/carers living in England and Wales (N = 995, Mage = 35.4 years, 80% female, 88% White). Participants reported on their chil…
Temperament as a predictor of eating behavior in middle childhood – A fixed effects approach
Open AccessSilje Steinsbekk, Oda Bjørklund et al.ARTICLEAppetite2020Cited by: 12References: 54
BACKGROUND: Individual differences in temperament are believed to influence the development of children's eating behavior. This hypothesis has predominantly been tested in cross-sectional designs and important confounders such as genetics and stable parenting factors have not been accounted for. The present study aims to establish more clearly than previous studies if temperament is involved in the etiology of eating behavior in middle childhood.…
Parental control over feeding in infancy. Influence of infant weight, appetite and feeding method
Open AccessAlison Fildes, Cornelia H M Van Jaarsveld et al.ARTICLEAppetite2015Cited by: 11References: 35
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Parental control over feeding has been linked to child overweight. Parental control behaviours have been assumed to be exogenous to the child, but emerging evidence suggests they are also child-responsive. This study tests the hypothesis that parental control in early infancy is responsive to infant appetite and weight. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Participants were 1920 mothers from the Gemini twin cohort, using one randomly s…
Prospective associations between parental feeding practices used in toddlerhood and preschool children's appetite vary according to appetite avidity in toddlerhood
Open AccessAlice R Kininmonth, Moritz Herle et al.ARTICLEAppetite2023Cited by: 7References: 52
Parental feeding practices are a key modifiable component of children's food environments. Evidence suggests that certain feeding practices may differentially influence children's eating behaviour or weight, depending on the child's temperament (e.g. emotionality). Building on this work, we tested the hypothesis that feeding practices during toddlerhood influence children's developing eating behaviours differently, depending on their appetite avi…
Examining parents’ experiences and challenges of feeding preschool children with avid eating behaviour
Open AccessKatie L Edwards, Jacqueline Blissett et al.ARTICLEAppetite2024Cited by: 5References: 51
Avid eating behaviours, including greater responsiveness to food cues and emotional over-eating, have been linked to child overweight and obesity. Parental feeding practices are modifiable components of a child's food environment and may be key levers for behaviour change in tailored interventions to support parents of children with avid eating behaviour. However, there is a lack of research examining parents' experiences in this context. This st…
For Whom the Bell Trolls: Shifting Troll Behaviour in the Twitter Brexit Debate
Open AccessClare Llewellyn, Laura Cram et al.ARTICLEJCMS Journal of Common Market…2019Cited by: 5References: 18
In 2017 Twitter released a list of 2,752 accounts believed to be connected to state‐sponsored Russian operative manipulation of the 2016 American Election. We investigate the behaviour of these accounts in the UK–EU referendum using our own unique longitudinal Twitter dataset. We identify Brexit‐related content from 419 of these accounts, totalling 3,485 tweets between 29 August 2015 and 3 October 2017. While these accounts were primarily designe…
Validation of the adult eating behavior questionnaire in a Norwegian sample of adolescents
Open AccessOda Bjørklund, Lars Wichstrøm et al.ARTICLEAppetite2024Cited by: 4References: 50
Eating behaviors are related to health and well-being. To examine stability and change in eating behaviors throughout life, developmentally appropriate measures capturing the same eating behavior dimensions are needed. The newly developed Adult Eating Behavior Questionnaire (AEBQ) builds on the well-established parent-reported Children's Eating Behavior Questionnaire (CEBQ), and together with the corresponding Baby Eating Behavior Questionnaire (…
Daily manifestations of Children's avid eating behaviour and associations with temperament, parental feeding practices and wellbeing
Open AccessAbigail Pickard, Katie L Edwards et al.ARTICLEAppetite2025Cited by: 2References: 46
Recent evidence has identified four distinct eating profiles in 3-5-year-old children in the UK: avid, happy, typical, and avoidant. Among these profiles, children with avid eating behaviour exhibit high responsiveness to food cues, emotional eating, fast eating speed, and low responsiveness to fullness, posing risks for overeating and higher adiposity. Despite the implications, there is limited research on how avid eating manifests and impacts p…
Associations between parent and child latent eating profiles and the role of parental feeding practices
Open AccessAbigail Pickard, Claire Farrow et al.ARTICLEAppetite2024Cited by: 2References: 34
Previous research employing the person-centred approach of Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) with parent-reported data of their child's eating behaviour identified four distinct eating profiles in 3-6-year-old children: typical, avid, happy, and avoidant eating (Pickard et al., 2023). In this follow-up study, the same parents were asked to self-report their own eating behaviour (N = 785) and LPA was conducted to determine the latent eating profiles o…
Differences in parental behaviour, emotions, and cognitions between children's eating profiles
Open AccessKatie L Edwards, Abigail Pickard et al.ARTICLEAppetite2024Cited by: 2References: 45
A variety of parent psychological characteristics (e.g., wellbeing) have been related to children's eating behaviour. However, parent-child feeding interactions are reciprocal and complex, including relationships between parental cognitions, emotions, as well as the influence of children's varying appetitive traits. Using a person-centred approach, children's appetitive traits can be clustered into meaningful eating profiles. To date, no research…
Appetite in Preschoolers: Producing Evidence for Tailoring Interventions Effectively - the AppetitE Study Protocol
Open AccessAbigail Pickard, Helen Croker et al.ARTICLEAppetite2022Cited by: 1