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Association between Parenthood and Health Behaviour in Later Life—Results from the Population-Based CARLA Study
Previous research has focused on comparing health behaviour between parents and non-parents at younger ages, while little is known about the impact of being a parent on health behaviours in later life. We studied whether parenthood is associated with later physical activity (PA), dietary pattern, sm...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8751226/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35010340 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010082 |
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author | Becker, Lisa Negash, Sarah Kartschmit, Nadja Kluttig, Alexander Mikolajczyk, Rafael |
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description | Previous research has focused on comparing health behaviour between parents and non-parents at younger ages, while little is known about the impact of being a parent on health behaviours in later life. We studied whether parenthood is associated with later physical activity (PA), dietary pattern, smoking status and alcohol consumption in German adults of middle and old age. We used data from the baseline examination of the population-based CARLA-study in Halle (Saale), comprising 1779 adults aged 45–83. Linear and logistic regression analyses assessed the relationship between parenthood and health behaviours while controlling for age, partner status, education, income, occupational position, socioeconomic status in childhood, and number of chronic diseases. Of the participants, 89.1% had biological children. Being a father was associated with higher PA in sports (sport index ß = 0.29, 95% confidence interval [0.14; 0.44]), but not with PA in leisure time (excluding sports), dietary pattern, consumption of alcohol and smoking status. No associations were found between being a mother with all outcome variables. Provided that PA of fathers is typically reduced when the children are young, the development towards higher PA at later age needs to be studied in more detail. |
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spelling | pubmed-87512262022-01-12 Association between Parenthood and Health Behaviour in Later Life—Results from the Population-Based CARLA Study Becker, Lisa Negash, Sarah Kartschmit, Nadja Kluttig, Alexander Mikolajczyk, Rafael Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Previous research has focused on comparing health behaviour between parents and non-parents at younger ages, while little is known about the impact of being a parent on health behaviours in later life. We studied whether parenthood is associated with later physical activity (PA), dietary pattern, smoking status and alcohol consumption in German adults of middle and old age. We used data from the baseline examination of the population-based CARLA-study in Halle (Saale), comprising 1779 adults aged 45–83. Linear and logistic regression analyses assessed the relationship between parenthood and health behaviours while controlling for age, partner status, education, income, occupational position, socioeconomic status in childhood, and number of chronic diseases. Of the participants, 89.1% had biological children. Being a father was associated with higher PA in sports (sport index ß = 0.29, 95% confidence interval [0.14; 0.44]), but not with PA in leisure time (excluding sports), dietary pattern, consumption of alcohol and smoking status. No associations were found between being a mother with all outcome variables. Provided that PA of fathers is typically reduced when the children are young, the development towards higher PA at later age needs to be studied in more detail. MDPI 2021-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8751226/ /pubmed/35010340 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010082 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Becker, Lisa Negash, Sarah Kartschmit, Nadja Kluttig, Alexander Mikolajczyk, Rafael Association between Parenthood and Health Behaviour in Later Life—Results from the Population-Based CARLA Study |
title | Association between Parenthood and Health Behaviour in Later Life—Results from the Population-Based CARLA Study |
title_full | Association between Parenthood and Health Behaviour in Later Life—Results from the Population-Based CARLA Study |
title_fullStr | Association between Parenthood and Health Behaviour in Later Life—Results from the Population-Based CARLA Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Association between Parenthood and Health Behaviour in Later Life—Results from the Population-Based CARLA Study |
title_short | Association between Parenthood and Health Behaviour in Later Life—Results from the Population-Based CARLA Study |
title_sort | association between parenthood and health behaviour in later life—results from the population-based carla study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8751226/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35010340 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010082 |
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