Association between health literacy and child and adolescent obesity

Chari, Roopa; Warsh, Joel; Ketterer, Tara; Hossain, Jobayer; Sharif, Iman

doi:10.1016/j.pec.2013.09.006

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“…Still others report a relationship with numeracy and not literacy 24 . Further, some studies demonstrate that child, but not parent, health literacy is significantly associated with BMI 6,7,10,25 . Differences in instrumentation aside, other factors that could be explored, including socioeconomic status, education, and even behavioral motivations or access to healthy food may mediate the BMI and health literacy relationship.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, it is not clear if parental health literacy influences child weight status. In a population of Hispanic children less than 30 months old, parental health literacy was not associated with child weight-for-length Z-score 5 , but a study of children aged 7–11 years old found an inverse relationship between parental health literacy and odds of childhood obesity 6 . Other studies of adolescent-age children disputed these findings 6,7 .…”

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confidence: 89%

“…Most have measured health literacy by the Short Test of Functional Health Literacy 5,7,8 or the Newest Vital Sign 6,9 . However, nutrition focused health literacy may involve constructs not reflected in general health literacy assessment tools.…”

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Assessing the Nutrition Literacy of Parents and Its Relationship With Child Diet Quality

Gibbs

Kennett

Kerling

et al. 2016

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

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Objective To estimate the reliability and validity of the Nutrition Literacy Assessment Instrument for Parents (NLit-P) and to investigate relationships between parental nutrition literacy, parental and child BMI, and child diet quality (Healthy Eating Index, HEI). Methods Cross-sectional study of 101 parent-child dyads which collected measures of socioeconomic status, nutrition literacy, 2–24 hour child diet recalls, and BMI. Reliability of NLit-P was assessed by confirmatory factor analysis. Pearson correlation and multiple linear regression was used. Results Fair to substantial reliability was seen across 5 NLit-P domains, while Pearson correlations support concurrent validity for the NLit-P related to child diet quality and parental income, age, and educational attainment (p<0.001). For every 1% increase in NLit-P, there was a 0.51 increase in child HEI (R2=0.174; p<0.001). Conclusions and Implications The NLit-P demonstrates potential for measuring parental nutrition literacy, which may be an important educational target for improving child diet quality.

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Assessing the Nutrition Literacy of Parents and Its Relationship With Child Diet Quality

Gibbs

Kennett

Kerling

et al. 2016

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

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“…African American adolescent females should receive education on healthy weight and body size and be provided with the knowledge to develop their personal understanding of the benefits of maintaining a healthy body weight (Chari, Warsh, Ketterer, Hossain, & Sharif, 2014). As identified through these studies, adolescent girls prefer interaction and collaboration with their peer networks thus, including this education with all adolescents and parent groups, may be beneficial (McKinney et al, 2014).…”

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The Influence of Parental Participation on Obesity Interventions in African American Adolescent Females: An Integrative Review

Nichols

Newman

Nemeth

et al. 2015

Journal of Pediatric Nursing

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“…Health literacy is an important consideration for obesity risk. A parent–child dyad study found that parent health literacy was related to childhood obesity, while adolescent health literacy is linked to obesity in adolescence 4. Few studies, however, have examined parent health literacy and obesogenic infant care behaviours specifically.…”

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Low parent health literacy is associated with ‘obesogenic’ infant care behaviours

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Besse

2014

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Implications for practice and research: Obesogenic infant care behaviours may increase childhood obesity, and predict obesity and related health risks in adulthood. Poor parent health literacy predicts poor child health outcomes including childhood obesity. Nurses should assess parent health literacy and provide appropriate support to prevent obesogenic infant care behaviours. Future research could focus on evaluating parent educational programmes tailored to health literacy level and effectiveness on reducing obesogenic care behaviours.

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Association between health literacy and child and adolescent obesity

Cited by 134 publications

References 49 publications

Assessing the Nutrition Literacy of Parents and Its Relationship With Child Diet Quality

Assessing the Nutrition Literacy of Parents and Its Relationship With Child Diet Quality

The Influence of Parental Participation on Obesity Interventions in African American Adolescent Females: An Integrative Review

Low parent health literacy is associated with ‘obesogenic’ infant care behaviours

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