Mediation by parent health literacy and behaviour of socioeconomic inequality in child overweight
Alexander Lepe,
Tamool A. S. Muhamed,
Sijmen A. Reijneveld
et al.
Abstract:SummaryBackgroundSocioeconomic inequalities contribute to childhood overweight. Identifying mediators could help reduce these inequalities.ObjectiveWe assessed to what extent and how parental health literacy and health behaviours mediate the relationship between parental socioeconomic status and childhood overweight.MethodsData were taken from the multigenerational prospective Dutch Lifelines Cohort Study. We included 6683 children, baseline age 9.8 years (SD = 2.6), with an average follow‐up of 36.2 months (S… Show more
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