Impact of parents’ physical activity on preschool children’s physical activity: a cross-sectional study

Xu, Chang; Quan, Minghui; Zhang, Hanbin; Zhou, Changle; Chen, Peijie

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“…This nding is similar to other ones found in previous studies, in which the important role of the family appears to be related to sedentary behaviours of children [28,29,30,31]. In fact, parents' lifestyle habits are the main predictors of the time spent watching television by schoolchildren [32,33,34]. Bjelland et al concluded that parental support and also their teaching and accompaniment in physical exercise decreased the time spent watching television or playing video games among European children [35,36,37,38].…”

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Sedentary Behaviors Of A School Population In Brazil And Related Factors Descriptive Research With Questionnaire

Ponce-Blandón

Deitos-Vasquez

Romero-Castillo

et al. 2020

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Background Overweight and obesity arise from a complex range of genetic, environmental, behavioural, educational, and socioeconomic factors. Poor eating habits and poor physical activity increase the probability that children will become obese adolescents. The sedentary lifestyle, encouraged by the rapid evolution of technology, has been accentuated in recent years. Strategies to accelerate obesity prevention include modifying the child's environment for healthy eating and physical activity. For this, it is essential to analyze the characteristics and life habits of children population. This study tries to know the sedentary practices and some life habits related to health among children from the school population of Uruguaiana (RS, Brazil), identifying the sociodemographic factors that can influence it.Methods The sample was composed of 470 school boys and girls, aged between 9 and 10 years. In order to obtain the sample, a random plampling was performed by clusters of the 24 urban public schools of the city. Sociodemographic variables and sedentary habits were measured.Results As regards the variables linked to habits, 24% of the boys and girls answered they had not had breakfast the day they completed the questionnaire. 51.8% stated they did not have breakfast any given day of the week. Regarding to sedentary habits, 25.3% of children watched TV or played video games 5 or more hours a day and 9% rarely played sports with their parents or caregivers. Statistical significance was recorded between “number of hours watching TV and playing video games” and “playing sports with parents or caregivers” (p < 0.05).Conclusions Association between the times spent watching TV or playing video games and the practice of physical exercise in the family, proves once again the importance of the family in education for the health of children. The school provides direct Access to schoolchildren and their parents to launch numerous health education programs.

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confidence: 87%

Sedentary Behaviors Of A School Population In Brazil And Related Factors Descriptive Research With Questionnaire

Ponce-Blandón

Deitos-Vasquez

Romero-Castillo

et al. 2020

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“…Two studies analysed the time where parent and child were engaging in PA together [47,51]. Fourteen studies distinguished between PA time of weekdays versus weekend days [25,26,28,30,33,34,36,39,43,45,51,52,55]. Because of a very limited number of homogenous estimates of relationship in PA between parents and children across studies in relation to time of the day and time of the week, analyses were not meaningful.…”

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“…The overall assessment scores for the quality of the 39 studies included in the present review are presented in Table 1. Only one study [28] was judged as having low risk of bias while eighteen [13,22,27,31,36,38,40,41,43,45,46,49,50,52,54,55,67,68] were considered as having moderate risk of bias. Fifteen studies [19, 21, 24-26, 29, 30, 32, 34, 39, 42, 44, 48, 51, 66] were categorized as having serious risk of bias, whereas five studies [20,23,35,37,40] were judged as having critical risk of bias.…”

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Association between parent and child physical activity: a systematic review

Petersen

Møller

Brønd

et al. 2020

Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act

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Background: Childhood represents an important life stage for establishment of physical activity (PA) habits. Parents are assumed to play an important role in influencing children's PA. Earlier reviews have mainly focused on parental modelling, encouragement, and support for PA, rather than the actual PA levels of parents. Therefore, the purpose of this review was to systematically summarize the evidence on the relationship between parent and child PA. Methods: Papers were identified using electronic databases and manual searches of reference lists. Papers reporting on associations between objectively measured child PA and at least one measure of parental PA were included. The quality of the papers was assessed using a modified version of the ROBINS-I tool. For interpretation of the results across studies, we produced albatross plots for all studies combined and by age-groups, sex of the parents, sex of the child, methodology of assessment of parental PA, and type of PA. Results: Thirty-nine papers were included with sample size of parent-child dyads ranging from 15 to 1267 (mean = 319 dyads, median = 227 dyads). The majority of studies were published from 2008 to 2018 and used accelerometry to assess PA. Most of the studies were classified as having moderate, serious, or critical risk of bias. The albatross plot for all studies combined showed that the clear majority of studies observed a positive relationship between parent and child PA. The plot suggested an average magnitude of correlation across studies to be around 0.13, and the overall impression was that this was fairly similar across child age-groups and gender of parent-child dyads. Studies using objective assessment of parental PA showed stronger relationship between parent and child PA compared with studies using self-report (average magnitude of correlation around 0.16 vs 0.04 respectively). No clear evidence was found for the strength of relationship being dependent on type of PA measure of parent and child (total PA, moderate-to-vigorous PA, steps), however, the relationship for light PA appeared weaker. Conclusion: This systematic review showed that the clear majority of studies observed a weak positive relationship between parent and child PA regardless of age of the child, the gender of the parent-child dyad, and type of PA. Trial registration: Registration in PROSPERO: CRD42019093462.

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“…In fact, parents’ lifestyle habits are the main predictors of screen time by schoolchildren [ 36 , 37 , 38 ]. Bjelland et al concluded that parental support and also their teaching and accompaniment in physical exercise decreased the screen time among European children [ 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 ]. A multivariate regression was performed between screen time and some sociodemographic variables and no statistical significance was obtained.…”

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confidence: 99%

Sedentary Behaviors of a School Population in Brazil and Related Factors

Ponce-Blandón

Deitos-Vasquez

Romero-Castillo

et al. 2020

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Background. Overweight and obesity arise from a complex range of genetic, environmental, behavioral, educational, and socioeconomic factors. The present study explored the sedentary practices and some life habits related to health among children from the school population of Uruguaiana (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil). Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted to characterize the life habits of the school boys and girls from fourth grade (9–10 years old). Results: A total of 470 fourth-grade boys and girls (9–10 years old) participated in the study. As regards the variables linked to habits, 24% of the boys and girls answered they had not had breakfast the day they completed the questionnaire and 51.8% stated they did not have breakfast any given day of the week. Regarding sedentary habits, 25.3% of children watched TV or played video games five or more hours a day and 9% rarely played sports with their parents or caregivers. Statistical significance was recorded between “number of hours watching TV and playing video games” and “playing sports with parents or caregivers” (p < 0.05). Conclusions: Association between the times spent watching TV or playing video games and the practice of physical exercise in the family proves once again the importance of the family in education for the health of children. The school provides direct access to schoolchildren and their parents to launch numerous health education programs.

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Impact of parents’ physical activity on preschool children’s physical activity: a cross-sectional study

Cited by 28 publications

References 47 publications

Sedentary Behaviors Of A School Population In Brazil And Related Factors Descriptive Research With Questionnaire

Sedentary Behaviors Of A School Population In Brazil And Related Factors Descriptive Research With Questionnaire

Association between parent and child physical activity: a systematic review

Sedentary Behaviors of a School Population in Brazil and Related Factors

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