Project name
How do parenting and parent-child interactions impact on preschool children's eating, physical activity habits and subsequent patterns of weight gain?Access conditions
Restricted to research group until completion of study. Enquiries should be addressed via email to Helen Skouteris.Collection start date
2010-02-01Material type
doc, xls, SPSS, mts files, mov files, accdb files, textLanguage
engNotes
A minimum of 100 parents and their preschool child aged between 24 and 36 months of age participated in the study. Approximately 50% of the children will be girls, so that gender differences can be explored. Recruitment was via child care centers and magazine advertisements. Data collection is filed by identification number and date and includes a Protocol manual and Data dictionary. The project's data collection commenced February 2010 and will be ongoing until December 2012. Data is collected twice a year in 6 month intervals and over a 3 year period. Home visits are conducted once a year over a two year period.The following outcome variables were measured:Child eating habits and daily dietary intake, duration of daily child physical and sedentary activities & child BMI (objective and self report). Nature of daily child physical and sedentary activities was also measured as a secondary outcome variable.The following predictor variables were measured:Parenting styles, parental behaviours and cognitions pertaining to feeding, eating and physical activity (maternal child feeding patterns, parental eating, parental modelling of physical and sedentary activities, parental encouragement, parental instrumental behaviours, parental knowledge of nutrition, parental beliefs and knowledge about child physical activity, parental concern for child) & parent-child interaction: mutually responsive orientation (MRO), measured during two home sessions (one at time of recruitment and one 12 months later and parent-child interaction measured by parental report).Secondary predictor variables have also been measured:Familial demographic variables, parental BMI (objective and self report), parental body satisfaction, child temperament, maternal self esteem, anxiety and depression, child proficiency of fundamental motor skills, child natural inclination to be physically active and barriers to, or facilitators of, physical activity in the home and neighbourhood environments.Copyright notice
©2011, Deakin UniversityExtent
500GB per annum. Approx. 100 time 1 and 2 video recordings; 5 time 2 video recordings (50-90 minutes in length) and questionnaires
