Aspects of parenting and family functioning associated with obesity in adolescent refugees and migrants from African backgrounds living in Australia

Aspects of parenting and family functioning associated with obesity in adolescent refugees and migrants from African backgrounds living in Australia

Mellor, David, Renzaho, Andre, Swinburn, Boyd, Green, Julie and Richardson, Ben 2012, Aspects of parenting and family functioning associated with obesity in adolescent refugees and migrants from African backgrounds living in Australia, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 317-324.

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Title	Aspects of parenting and family functioning associated with obesity in adolescent refugees and migrants from African backgrounds living in Australia
Author(s)	Mellor, David Renzaho, Andre Swinburn, Boyd Green, Julie Richardson, Ben
Journal name	Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
Volume number	36
Issue number	4
Start page	317
End page	324
Total pages	8
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia
Place of publication	Richmond, Vic.
Publication date	2012-08
ISSN	1326-0200
Keyword(s)	immigrant family functioning parenting style African obesity adolescent
Summary	Objective: To investigate the relationship between parenting style and family functioning, and BMI, among adolescent migrants and refugees from African countries. Method: A total of 104 parents and their adolescent offspring completed questionnaires assessing the variables of interest, and anthropometric data were collected from them. Results: Parents reported higher maternal involvement, lower levels of paternal involvement, higher levels of positive parenting, greater use of ‘other’ (non-corporal) discipline styles, greater satisfaction and better communication than did their offspring. Parents also reported greater family cohesion and flexibility than adolescents, and saw their families as more enmeshed and more rigid. Parenting style and family functioning were not strong predictors of BMI according to either report. For adolescents, inconsistent discipline and lack of parental supervision accounted for significant variance in BMI. Conclusions: Inconsistent discipline and lack of parental supervision may be related to adolescent BMI. Further studies with larger samples are required to confirm these relationships with the view to informing obesity prevention programs for this target population. Implications: Prevention or intervention programs aimed at reducing the prevalence of overweight and obesity need to consider parenting style in their design.
Language	eng
Field of Research	111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
Socio Economic Objective	920599 Specific Population Health (excl. Indigenous Health) not elsewhere classified
HERDC Research category	C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice	©2012, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia
Persistent URL	http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30047122

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