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Parental physical activity is associated with objectively measured physical activity in young children in a sex-specific manner: the GECKO Drenthe cohort
- Source :
- BMC Public Health, Brouwer, S I, Küpers, L K, Kors, L, Sijtsma, A, Sauer, P J J, Renders, C M & Corpeleijn, E 2018, ' Parental physical activity is associated with objectively measured physical activity in young children in a sex-specific manner: The GECKO Drenthe cohort ', BMC Public Health, vol. 18, 1033, pp. 1-10 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5883-x, Brouwer, S I, Küpers, L K, Kors, L, Sijtsma, A, Sauer, P J J, Renders, C M & Corpeleijn, E 2018, ' Parental physical activity is associated with objectively measured physical activity in young children in a sex-specific manner : The GECKO Drenthe cohort ', BMC Public Health, vol. 18, 1033 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5883-x, BMC Public Health, 18(1):1033. BMC, BMC Public Health, 18:1033, 1-10. BioMed Central, BMC Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- BACKGROUND: Physical activity (PA) is important in combating childhood obesity. Parents, and thus parental PA, could influence PA in young children. We examined whether the time spent at different intensities of PA and the type of parental PA are associated with the PA of children aged 4-7 years, and whether the associations between child-parent pairs were sex-specific.METHODS: All the participants were recruited from the Groningen Expert Center for Kids with Obesity (GECKO) birth cohort (babies born between 1 April 2006 and 1 April 2007 in Drenthe province, the Netherlands) and were aged 4-7 years during measurement. PA in children was measured using the ActiGraph GT3X (worn at least 3 days, ≥10 h per day). PA in parents was assessed using the validated SQUASH questionnaire.RESULTS: Of the N = 1146 children with valid ActiGraph data and 838 mothers and 814 fathers with valid questionnaire data, 623 child-parent pairs with complete data were analysed. More leisure time PA in mothers was associated with more time spent in moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) in children (Spearman r = 0.079, P CONCLUSIONS: Higher PA in mothers, for instance in leisure activities, is related to higher PA in daughters, and more active fathers are related to more active sons. To support PA in young children, interventions could focus on the PA of the parent of the same sex as the child. Special attention may be needed for families where the parents have sedentary jobs, as children from these families seem to adopt more sedentary behaviour.
- Subjects :
- Male
Parents
medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatric Obesity
Time Factors
Physical activity
Psychological intervention
Childhood obesity
Cohort Studies
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Leisure Activities
Sex Factors
SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
Surveys and Questionnaires
Epidemiology
Medicine
Humans
Family
030212 general & internal medicine
Parent-Child Relations
Child
Exercise
Children
Netherlands
business.industry
lcsh:Public aspects of medicine
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
lcsh:RA1-1270
030229 sport sciences
medicine.disease
Obesity
Child, Preschool
Cohort
Female
Role model
Biostatistics
business
Demography
Cohort study
Sports
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14712458
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMC public health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ca33fdaedcc104f824c2ed1e75b25da8