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Parenting stress: a cross-sectional analysis of associations with childhood obesity, physical activity, and TV viewing

BACKGROUND: Parents influence their children’s obesity risk through feeding behaviours and modeling of weight-related behaviours. Little is known about how the general home environment, including parental stress, may influence children’s weight. The objective of this study was to explore the associa...

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Autores principales: Walton, Kathryn, Simpson, Janis Randall, Darlington, Gerarda, Haines, Jess
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4194416/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25270356
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-14-244
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Simpson, Janis Randall
Darlington, Gerarda
Haines, Jess
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description BACKGROUND: Parents influence their children’s obesity risk through feeding behaviours and modeling of weight-related behaviours. Little is known about how the general home environment, including parental stress, may influence children’s weight. The objective of this study was to explore the association between parenting stress and child body mass index (BMI) as well as obesity risk factors, physical activity and television (TV) viewing. METHODS: We used cross-sectional data from 110 parent–child dyads participating in a community-based parenting intervention. Child heights and weights were measured by trained research assistants. Parents (93% mothers) reported level of parenting stress via the Parenting Stress Index- Short Form (PSI-3-SF) as well as children’s activity behaviours and TV viewing. This was an ethnically diverse (55% Hispanic/Latino, 22% Black), low-income (64% earning < $45,000/year) sample. RESULTS: Level of parenting stress was not associated with children’s risk of being overweight/obese. Children with highly stressed parents were less likely to meet physical activity guidelines on weekdays than children with normally stressed parents (OR = 0.33, 95% CI, 0.12-0.95). Parents experiencing high stress were less likely to set limits on the amount of TV their children watched (OR = 0.32, 95% CI, 0.11, 0.93). CONCLUSION: Results suggest stress specific to parenting may not be associated with increased obesity risk among children. However, future interventions may need to address stress as a possible underlying factor associated with unhealthful behaviours among preschoolers.
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spelling pubmed-41944162014-10-14 Parenting stress: a cross-sectional analysis of associations with childhood obesity, physical activity, and TV viewing Walton, Kathryn Simpson, Janis Randall Darlington, Gerarda Haines, Jess BMC Pediatr Research Article BACKGROUND: Parents influence their children’s obesity risk through feeding behaviours and modeling of weight-related behaviours. Little is known about how the general home environment, including parental stress, may influence children’s weight. The objective of this study was to explore the association between parenting stress and child body mass index (BMI) as well as obesity risk factors, physical activity and television (TV) viewing. METHODS: We used cross-sectional data from 110 parent–child dyads participating in a community-based parenting intervention. Child heights and weights were measured by trained research assistants. Parents (93% mothers) reported level of parenting stress via the Parenting Stress Index- Short Form (PSI-3-SF) as well as children’s activity behaviours and TV viewing. This was an ethnically diverse (55% Hispanic/Latino, 22% Black), low-income (64% earning < $45,000/year) sample. RESULTS: Level of parenting stress was not associated with children’s risk of being overweight/obese. Children with highly stressed parents were less likely to meet physical activity guidelines on weekdays than children with normally stressed parents (OR = 0.33, 95% CI, 0.12-0.95). Parents experiencing high stress were less likely to set limits on the amount of TV their children watched (OR = 0.32, 95% CI, 0.11, 0.93). CONCLUSION: Results suggest stress specific to parenting may not be associated with increased obesity risk among children. However, future interventions may need to address stress as a possible underlying factor associated with unhealthful behaviours among preschoolers. BioMed Central 2014-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4194416/ /pubmed/25270356 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-14-244 Text en © Walton et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_fullStr Parenting stress: a cross-sectional analysis of associations with childhood obesity, physical activity, and TV viewing
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title_short Parenting stress: a cross-sectional analysis of associations with childhood obesity, physical activity, and TV viewing
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4194416/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25270356
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-14-244
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