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Micro-level economic factors and incentives in Children’s energy balance related behaviours - findings from the ENERGY European cross-section questionnaire survey

BACKGROUND: To date, most research on obesogenic environments facing school children has focused on physical and socio-cultural environments. The role of economic factors has been investigated to a much lesser extent. Our objective was to explore the association of micro-level economic factors and i...

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Autores principales: Jensen, Jørgen Dejgård, Bere, Elling, De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse, Jan, Natasa, Maes, Lea, Manios, Yannis, Martens, Marloes K, Molnar, Denes, Moreno, Luis A, Singh, Amika S, te Velde, Saskia, Brug, Johannes
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3514146/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23171289
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1479-5868-9-136
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author Jensen, Jørgen Dejgård
Bere, Elling
De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse
Jan, Natasa
Maes, Lea
Manios, Yannis
Martens, Marloes K
Molnar, Denes
Moreno, Luis A
Singh, Amika S
te Velde, Saskia
Brug, Johannes
author_facet Jensen, Jørgen Dejgård
Bere, Elling
De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse
Jan, Natasa
Maes, Lea
Manios, Yannis
Martens, Marloes K
Molnar, Denes
Moreno, Luis A
Singh, Amika S
te Velde, Saskia
Brug, Johannes
author_sort Jensen, Jørgen Dejgård
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description BACKGROUND: To date, most research on obesogenic environments facing school children has focused on physical and socio-cultural environments. The role of economic factors has been investigated to a much lesser extent. Our objective was to explore the association of micro-level economic factors and incentives with sports activities and intake of soft drinks and fruit juice in 10-12 year-old school children across Europe, and to explore price sensitivity in children’s soft drink consumption and correlates of this price sensitivity. METHODS: Data for the study originate from a cross-sectional survey undertaken in seven European countries (Belgium, Greece, Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia and Spain) in 2010 among 10-12 year-old school children and their parents. In total, 7234 child questionnaires and 6002 parent questionnaires were completed. The child questionnaire included questions addressing self-reported weekly intake of soft drinks and fruit juices and time spent on sports activities, perception of parental support for sports activities, use of pocket money for soft drinks and perceived price responsiveness. Parent questionnaires included questions addressing the role of budget and price considerations in decisions regarding children’s sports activities, soft drink consumption, home practices and rules and socio-demographic background variables. Data were analysed using multiple linear regression and discrete-choice (ordered probit) modelling. RESULTS: Economic factors were found to be associated with children’s sports participation and sugary drink consumption, explaining 27% of the variation in time for sports activities, and 27% and 12% of the variation in the children’s soft drink and juice consumption, respectively. Parents’ financial support was found to be an important correlate (Beta =0.419) of children’s sports activities. Children’s pocket money was a strong correlate (Beta =21.034) of soft drink consumption. The majority of the responding children reported to expect that significantly higher prices of soft drinks would lead them to buy less soft drinks with their own pocket money, but a majority of parents did not expect higher soft drink prices to reduce their children’s soft drink consumption. CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that economic factors, especially parents’ financial support and amount of pocket money, appear to be of importance for children’s sports participation and soft drink consumption, respectively.
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spelling pubmed-35141462012-12-06 Micro-level economic factors and incentives in Children’s energy balance related behaviours - findings from the ENERGY European cross-section questionnaire survey Jensen, Jørgen Dejgård Bere, Elling De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse Jan, Natasa Maes, Lea Manios, Yannis Martens, Marloes K Molnar, Denes Moreno, Luis A Singh, Amika S te Velde, Saskia Brug, Johannes Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act Research BACKGROUND: To date, most research on obesogenic environments facing school children has focused on physical and socio-cultural environments. The role of economic factors has been investigated to a much lesser extent. Our objective was to explore the association of micro-level economic factors and incentives with sports activities and intake of soft drinks and fruit juice in 10-12 year-old school children across Europe, and to explore price sensitivity in children’s soft drink consumption and correlates of this price sensitivity. METHODS: Data for the study originate from a cross-sectional survey undertaken in seven European countries (Belgium, Greece, Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia and Spain) in 2010 among 10-12 year-old school children and their parents. In total, 7234 child questionnaires and 6002 parent questionnaires were completed. The child questionnaire included questions addressing self-reported weekly intake of soft drinks and fruit juices and time spent on sports activities, perception of parental support for sports activities, use of pocket money for soft drinks and perceived price responsiveness. Parent questionnaires included questions addressing the role of budget and price considerations in decisions regarding children’s sports activities, soft drink consumption, home practices and rules and socio-demographic background variables. Data were analysed using multiple linear regression and discrete-choice (ordered probit) modelling. RESULTS: Economic factors were found to be associated with children’s sports participation and sugary drink consumption, explaining 27% of the variation in time for sports activities, and 27% and 12% of the variation in the children’s soft drink and juice consumption, respectively. Parents’ financial support was found to be an important correlate (Beta =0.419) of children’s sports activities. Children’s pocket money was a strong correlate (Beta =21.034) of soft drink consumption. The majority of the responding children reported to expect that significantly higher prices of soft drinks would lead them to buy less soft drinks with their own pocket money, but a majority of parents did not expect higher soft drink prices to reduce their children’s soft drink consumption. CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that economic factors, especially parents’ financial support and amount of pocket money, appear to be of importance for children’s sports participation and soft drink consumption, respectively. BioMed Central 2012-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3514146/ /pubmed/23171289 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1479-5868-9-136 Text en Copyright ©2012 Jensen et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Research
Jensen, Jørgen Dejgård
Bere, Elling
De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse
Jan, Natasa
Maes, Lea
Manios, Yannis
Martens, Marloes K
Molnar, Denes
Moreno, Luis A
Singh, Amika S
te Velde, Saskia
Brug, Johannes
Micro-level economic factors and incentives in Children’s energy balance related behaviours - findings from the ENERGY European cross-section questionnaire survey
title Micro-level economic factors and incentives in Children’s energy balance related behaviours - findings from the ENERGY European cross-section questionnaire survey
title_full Micro-level economic factors and incentives in Children’s energy balance related behaviours - findings from the ENERGY European cross-section questionnaire survey
title_fullStr Micro-level economic factors and incentives in Children’s energy balance related behaviours - findings from the ENERGY European cross-section questionnaire survey
title_full_unstemmed Micro-level economic factors and incentives in Children’s energy balance related behaviours - findings from the ENERGY European cross-section questionnaire survey
title_short Micro-level economic factors and incentives in Children’s energy balance related behaviours - findings from the ENERGY European cross-section questionnaire survey
title_sort micro-level economic factors and incentives in children’s energy balance related behaviours - findings from the energy european cross-section questionnaire survey
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3514146/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23171289
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1479-5868-9-136
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