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Parent-Child Physical Activity Association in Families with 4- to 16-Year-Old Children
Background: The main aim of this study was to quantify the associations between parents’ and children’s physical activity by age, gender, and the day of the week on the basis of a pedometer-measured step count (SC). Methods: The sample comprised data from 4-to 16-year-old children and their parents...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7312858/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32516925 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17114015 |
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author | Sigmundová, Dagmar Sigmund, Erik Badura, Petr Hollein, Tomáš |
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description | Background: The main aim of this study was to quantify the associations between parents’ and children’s physical activity by age, gender, and the day of the week on the basis of a pedometer-measured step count (SC). Methods: The sample comprised data from 4-to 16-year-old children and their parents from the Czech Republic (1102 mother-child dyads and 693 father-child dyads). The parents and their children wore the Yamax SW200 pedometer during seven days of monitoring. Results: The strongest SC association was found between mothers and daughters aged 4–7.9 years on weekdays (r(p) = 0.402; p < 0.01) and at weekends (r(p) = 0.577; p < 0.01). In children aged 8–16, the parent-child association is gender-specific, with the father-son relationship being dominant, especially at weekends (weekend SC: fathers-sons(8–11.9 y) r(p) = 0.416, p < 0.01; fathers-sons(12–16 y) r(p) = 0.443, p < 0.01). An increase of 1000 steps in the fathers (mothers) is associated with an increase of more than 400 (200) steps in their sons (daughters). Conclusions: This study confirms a strong parent-child SC relationship in children younger than eight years of age. In older children, the parent-child SC association is gender-specific and dominated by the father-son relationship, particularly on weekends. The SC associations that are revealed can be used for the development of physical activity programs for adolescents. |
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spelling | pubmed-73128582020-06-29 Parent-Child Physical Activity Association in Families with 4- to 16-Year-Old Children Sigmundová, Dagmar Sigmund, Erik Badura, Petr Hollein, Tomáš Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Background: The main aim of this study was to quantify the associations between parents’ and children’s physical activity by age, gender, and the day of the week on the basis of a pedometer-measured step count (SC). Methods: The sample comprised data from 4-to 16-year-old children and their parents from the Czech Republic (1102 mother-child dyads and 693 father-child dyads). The parents and their children wore the Yamax SW200 pedometer during seven days of monitoring. Results: The strongest SC association was found between mothers and daughters aged 4–7.9 years on weekdays (r(p) = 0.402; p < 0.01) and at weekends (r(p) = 0.577; p < 0.01). In children aged 8–16, the parent-child association is gender-specific, with the father-son relationship being dominant, especially at weekends (weekend SC: fathers-sons(8–11.9 y) r(p) = 0.416, p < 0.01; fathers-sons(12–16 y) r(p) = 0.443, p < 0.01). An increase of 1000 steps in the fathers (mothers) is associated with an increase of more than 400 (200) steps in their sons (daughters). Conclusions: This study confirms a strong parent-child SC relationship in children younger than eight years of age. In older children, the parent-child SC association is gender-specific and dominated by the father-son relationship, particularly on weekends. The SC associations that are revealed can be used for the development of physical activity programs for adolescents. MDPI 2020-06-05 2020-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7312858/ /pubmed/32516925 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17114015 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Sigmundová, Dagmar Sigmund, Erik Badura, Petr Hollein, Tomáš Parent-Child Physical Activity Association in Families with 4- to 16-Year-Old Children |
title | Parent-Child Physical Activity Association in Families with 4- to 16-Year-Old Children |
title_full | Parent-Child Physical Activity Association in Families with 4- to 16-Year-Old Children |
title_fullStr | Parent-Child Physical Activity Association in Families with 4- to 16-Year-Old Children |
title_full_unstemmed | Parent-Child Physical Activity Association in Families with 4- to 16-Year-Old Children |
title_short | Parent-Child Physical Activity Association in Families with 4- to 16-Year-Old Children |
title_sort | parent-child physical activity association in families with 4- to 16-year-old children |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7312858/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32516925 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17114015 |
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