Investigating the Relationship of Body Mass Index, Diet Quality, and Physical Activity Level between Fathers and Their Preschool-Aged Children

Vollmer, Rachel L.; Adamsons, Kari; Gorin, Amy A.; Foster, Jaime S.; Mobley, Amy R.

doi:10.1016/j.jand.2014.12.003

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“…33 Two studies using the HEI have been conducted in younger children and the results are of a similar magnitude to that found in the current study. 34 Among the prior studies, analyses of father-child dyads found father HEI-2010 was positively associated with child HEI-2010 (β = 0.39, p<0.0001) 35 and analyses of mother-child dyads found mother HEI-2005 positively correlated with child HEI-2005 (r = 0.44, p<0.0001). 34 It is important to note diet quality in many prior studies 32,34,35 was derived from less than the recommended three 24-hour recalls 15 which were obtained from 98.5% of parent-child dyads included in the current study.…”

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Parent Diet Quality and Energy Intake Are Related to Child Diet Quality and Energy Intake

Robson¹,

Couch²,

Peugh³

et al. 2016

Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

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Background Parents' diets are believed to influence their children's diets. Previous studies have not adequately and simultaneously assessed the relation of parent and child total diet quality and energy intake. Objective To investigate if parent and child diet quality and energy intakes are related. Design A cross-sectional analysis using baseline dietary intake data from the Neighborhood Impact on Kids (NIK) study collected in 2007-2009. Participants/setting Parents and 6-12 year old children from households in King County (Seattle area), WA and San Diego County, CA, targeted by NIK were recruited. Eligible parent-child dyads (n=698) with two or three 24-hour dietary recalls were included in this secondary analysis. Main Outcome Measures Child diet quality (Healthy Eating Index-2010 [HEI-2010], Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension [DASH] score, and energy density (for food-only) and energy intake were derived from the dietary recalls using Nutrition Data Systems for Research. Statistical Analyses Performed Multiple linear regression models examined the relationship between parent diet quality and child diet quality, and the relationship between parent energy intake and child energy intake. In both analyses, we controlled for parent characteristics, child characteristics, household education and neighborhood type. Results Parent diet quality measures were significantly related to corresponding child diet quality measures: HEI-2010 (standardized beta [β] = 0.39, p<0.001); DASH score (β = 0.33, p<0.001); energy density (β = 0.32, p<0.001). Parent daily average energy intake (1763 ± 524 kilocalories) also was significantly related (β = 0.30, p<0.001) to child daily average energy intake (1751 ± 431 kilocalories). Conclusion Parent and child intakes were closely related across various metrics of diet quality and for energy intake. Mechanisms of influence are likely to be shared food environments, shared meals, and parent modeling.

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Parent Diet Quality and Energy Intake Are Related to Child Diet Quality and Energy Intake

Robson¹,

Couch²,

Peugh³

et al. 2016

Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

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“…Especially evidence on preschool children is scarce [5]. Thus far, no one has answered, to the best of our knowledge, the question of whether parents who achieve the recommendations for daily SC also help their preschool children achieve the recommendations for daily SC.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…According to the Socialization Model of Children’s Behaviour [1], which is based on the Social Cognitive Theory [2], parents have a direct influence on their child’s behaviour and also on the body weight [3–6], physical activity (PA) [5, 7–9] and screen time (ST) of children [9–11]. The prominent questionnaire studies show the importance of parental support for the implementation of PA in their children [12–14].…”

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“…Therefore, it is desirable to identify effective interventions and programs to encourage energy-balanced behaviour to reverse this unfavourable trend toward overweight/obesity in preschool children [5, 9–11, 25–27]. Recommendations for designing PA-related interventions for preschoolers and interventions to reduce overweight/obesity call for involvement of both parents [25–27] in order to better integrate the children’s families into kindergarten-based interventions [28–31].…”

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Weekday-weekend patterns of physical activity and screen time in parents and their pre-schoolers

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BackgroundThis study focuses on the comparison of weekday/weekend parent-child behavioural patterns (step count (SC) and screen time (ST)) and answers the question of whether achieving the recommendations for daily SC (10,000) in parents also helps their preschool children achieve the recommended daily SC (11,500).MethodsThe participants (278 parents aged 30–45 and their 194 children aged 4–7) were randomly recruited from 10 Czech public kindergartens. The participants recorded SC (pedometer Yamax Digiwalker SW-200) and ST duration (proxy-report) for seven consecutive days (≥8 h/day) during September–October 2014 and April–May 2015. Differences between weekdays/weekends SC or ST were tested using a paired t-test. The odds of achieving the recommended daily SC for children were estimated using general logistic regression separately for weekdays and weekends.ResultsOnly the mothers were found to have a significantly lower SC at weekends than on weekdays. All of the participants showed significantly more ST at weekends than on weekdays (daughters: 78.6 vs. 45.7 min/day, p < 0.001; sons: 78.8 vs. 55.8 min/day; mothers: 93.0 vs. 68.3 min/day; and fathers: 116.6 vs. 87.5 min/day). Daughters and sons were significantly more likely to achieve daily SC recommendation if a) the SC on weekdays during the daily routine in kindergarten exceeded the median of kindergarten SC or b) at weekends if their mother (OR: 9.67, 95 % CI: 3.57–26.23) exceeded 10,000 steps a day.ConclusionsEspecially at weekends, preschoolers have higher odds of meeting the recommended 11,500 steps per day when their mother reaches 10,000 steps per day and this is independent of the amount of parents’ ST. Moreover, physical activity in kindergarten helps preschool children meet the 11,500 recommended steps per day on weekdays. Therefore, interventions to promote physical activity in preschoolers should focus on kindergartens and encourage involvement of their families.

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“…Recognizing the scarcity of research on fathers’ feeding-related parenting strategies, Khandpur and colleagues (Khandpur et al 2014) reviewed and summarized 20 studies. They determined that fathers consider child feeding well within their role as parents and are responsible for organizing meals at least half of the time and deciding what kinds of foods and how much of each to feed children (Khandpur et al 2014; Vollmer, Adamsons, Gorin, et al 2015). Paternal feeding-related parenting strategies most frequently used include pressuring to eat through the use of neutral prompts, physical prompts, and incentives.…”

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Latino fathers’ feeding-related parenting strategies on children’s eating

Parada

Ayala

Horton³

et al. 2016

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

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This study examined father and child socio-demographic characteristics in relation to fathers’ feeding-related parenting strategies and whether his parenting strategies were associated with children’s-reported fruit and vegetable (FV), weekly fast food, and daily sugar-sweetened beverage intake among 81 Latino fathers-children pairs. Fathers’ employment status, acculturation, number of children in the home, and child’s age and weight status were associated with the use of different parenting strategies. Additionally, more control was associated with less FV intake, but more reinforcement was associated with more FV intake by children. Fathers play a role in their children’s diet and should be considered in future interventions.

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Investigating the Relationship of Body Mass Index, Diet Quality, and Physical Activity Level between Fathers and Their Preschool-Aged Children

Cited by 55 publications

References 48 publications

Parent Diet Quality and Energy Intake Are Related to Child Diet Quality and Energy Intake

Parent Diet Quality and Energy Intake Are Related to Child Diet Quality and Energy Intake

Weekday-weekend patterns of physical activity and screen time in parents and their pre-schoolers

Latino fathers’ feeding-related parenting strategies on children’s eating

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