The Effects of Family Structure on Consumption and Exercise Patterns for Adolescent Youth

Yelick, Anna

doi:10.1007/s10560-016-0468-y

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“… Note: BMI: body mass index; ECLS-K: Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort; NHANES: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; LSAC: Longitudinal Study of Australian Children; IDEFICS: Identification and Prevention of Dietary-and Lifestyle-Induced Health Effects in Children and Infants; ECLS-B: Early Childhood Longitudinal Study – Birth Cohort; ECLS-K: Early Childhood Longitudinal Study – Kindergarten Cohort. a Sisson et al (2014) measured and found differences in obesogenic behaviors and did not measure BMI. Outcomes: Children from single-mother homes had higher odds of bedroom television and higher odds of infrequent family meals (odds ratio: 1.49, 1.28). b Yelick’s (2017) primary outcome was to measure eating and exercise patterns. Outcomes: Compared to youth from single parent families, youth from two-parent families had healthy consumption pattern and higher levels of exercise patterns.…”

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Children of single-parent households are at a higher risk of obesity: A systematic review

Duriancik

Goff

2019

J Child Health Care

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The goal of this systematic review was to evaluate whether children living in single-parent households have a higher risk of obesity. Of the 539 studies identified using keywords, a total of 10 original studies met the inclusion criteria for this review. The outcome measures included objective assessment of adiposity (weight or body mass index (BMI)), dietary consumption, physical activity, and/or obesogenic behaviors (bedroom television, elevated television viewing time, insufficient physical activity, and infrequent family meals). Overall, the studies found higher BMIs and obesogenic behaviors in children of single-parent households. Characteristics identified with this association is comprised of being most prevalent among girls and Black children. Possible explanations for this association include single-parent households having higher time demands due to the lack of shared household responsibilities. Subsequently, a reduction of homemade meals, shared family meals, and physical activity can occur. Also, lower incomes and higher instability related to living transitions may be other possible challenges experienced in single-parent households. Based on the limited number of studies found, further research of the obesity risk in children from single-parent families is recommended. The findings can help provide clinicians and public health programs with a better understanding of how to effectively target family-based interventions for this population.

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“… b Yelick’s (2017) primary outcome was to measure eating and exercise patterns. Outcomes: Compared to youth from single parent families, youth from two-parent families had healthy consumption pattern and higher levels of exercise patterns.…”

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Children of single-parent households are at a higher risk of obesity: A systematic review

Duriancik

Goff

2019

J Child Health Care

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“…Reasons for the rise of obesity in children and adolescents are diverse and include poor food choices, physical inactivity, sedentary lifestyle, peer groups, family structure and socio-economic status (SES) of the parents (24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29) . Furthermore, some literature suggests that nutrition knowledge in children and young adolescents may have an impact on dietary habits (30) .…”

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Relationship between nutrition knowledge, education and other determinants of food intake and lifestyle habits among adolescents from urban and rural secondary schools in Tyrol, Western Austria

Egg¹,

Wakolbinger²,

Reisser³

et al. 2020

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the association of the number of hours of nutrition education and teachers’ qualifications with nutrition knowledge and dietary behaviour in students. Design: In this representative cross-sectional study, socio-demographic data, anthropometric measurements, socio-economic status (SES), physical fitness, nutrition knowledge and eating habits were assessed. Differences between groups were tested by χ2 and t tests. Multiple linear and logistic regression modelling was used to examine the relationship between demographic characteristics, lifestyle and dietary behaviours, nutrition knowledge, nutrition-trained teachers and number of nutrition lessons. Setting: Sixteen secondary schools in urban (n 6) and rural regions (n 10) of Tyrol, Western Austria. Participants: Students (n 513) aged 14·2 (sd 0·7) years. Results: Higher nutrition knowledge was significantly associated with attending rural school (P = 0·001), having no migration background (P < 0·001), (very) good physical activity behaviour (P = 0·040), non-trained teacher (P = 0·006) but higher number of hours of nutrition education (P = 0·013). Regression models showed that higher nutrition knowledge was independently associated with lower intake of meat and iced tea and higher intake of vegetables and plant-based oils. A higher amount of nutrition education (h/week) was significantly associated with higher intake of dark (wholegrain) bread, lower intake of meat and of energy drinks sweetened with sweeteners. Conclusions: Our results suggest that more hours in nutrition education result in higher nutrition knowledge and greater nutrition literacy, which may lead to health-promoting dietary habits. School-based nutrition education can be seen as preventive measure to increase nutritional competences in adolescents independent of their SES.

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“…Previous studies have found that the mother is the most important relative promoting child health and that children living without their mother were at significantly higher risk of mortality and other negative outcomes, at least in part because they receive fewer resources and less care [42,44]. Studies have shown that step-mothers do not substitute for mothers [15,43], and our findings corroborate these reports, but paradoxically indicate that living with a step-parent is not associated with worse outcomes in the case of obesity. One concern would be whether the absence of obesity is actually a negative outcome, in that it could indicate underweight, but we did not find this to be the case, as children living in step-families were not more often underweight than children living with both biological parents.…”

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“…A third aspect of household structure, also understudied with respect to obesity, is the relatedness of co-residing parents to the child. Children living with stepparents are disadvantaged compared with children living with two biological parents [15,41–43]. In the U.S., step-parents have tended to invest less in children than do biological parents: households that include stepchildren spend less on food: spending varies with the relatedness between mother and child, with less spent on adoptive than biological children, less on stepchildren than on adoptive children, and less on foster children than on stepchildren; children living with stepmothers are also less likely to have routine doctor and dentist visits, to have a health care provider, to wear seatbelts, and to live in a non-smoking home [28].…”

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Protecting children’s health in a calorie-surplus context: Household structure and child growth in the United States

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Studies from the social and health sciences have tended to view the household as the locus of access to and distribution of care, resources, monitoring and modeling for children’s wellbeing. Obesity may present a special case for the study of investments in children, being a component of health for which more of certain inputs may not lead to better outcomes. We expanded on common measures of household structure in the child health literature by considering co-residence and relatedness of parents, grandparents, other relatives, and other children. Data were from a longitudinal sample of 6,700 children participating in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Kindergarten Class of 1998–99 (ECLS-K), the largest U.S. national dataset with measures of child anthropometrics and household structure at seven time-points over nine years. We used lagged survey-adjusted regressions to estimate associations between household structure and subsequent changes in children’s weight between ages 5 and 14 years in terms of BMI gain and incident obesity. Adjusting for household structure more thoroughly, children living in households with two parents rather than one parent did not experience advantages in terms of less excess weight gain or lower incidence of obesity during elementary and middle school. Children living with a grandmother gained more weight than children not living with a grandmother. Living with siblings and with non-related adults was associated with less weight gain. These findings corroborate a scenario in which, for health problems associated with caloric surplus, classic household factors have more complex associations with child wellbeing.

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The Effects of Family Structure on Consumption and Exercise Patterns for Adolescent Youth

Cited by 9 publications

References 40 publications

Children of single-parent households are at a higher risk of obesity: A systematic review

Children of single-parent households are at a higher risk of obesity: A systematic review

Relationship between nutrition knowledge, education and other determinants of food intake and lifestyle habits among adolescents from urban and rural secondary schools in Tyrol, Western Austria

Protecting children’s health in a calorie-surplus context: Household structure and child growth in the United States

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