Family influences on children's physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption Pearson, Natalie, Timperio, Anna, Salmon, Jo, Crawford, David and Biddle, Stuart J. H. 2009, Family influences on children's physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption, International journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity, vol. 6, no. 34, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1186/1479-5868-6-34. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads crawford-familyinfluences-2009.pdf Published version application/pdf 463.12KB 278 Title Family influences on children's physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption Author(s) Pearson, Natalie Timperio, Anna orcid.org/0000-0002-8773-5012 Salmon, Jo orcid.org/0000-0002-4734-6354 Crawford, David orcid.org/0000-0002-2467-7556 Biddle, Stuart J. H. Journal name International journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity Volume number 6 Issue number 34 Start page 1 End page 7 Total pages 7 Publisher BioMed Central Ltd. Place of publication London, England Publication date 2009-06 ISSN 1479-5868 Summary Background : There is evidence of a clustering of healthy dietary patterns and physical activity among young people and also of unhealthy behaviours. The identification of influences on children's health behaviors, particularly clustered health behaviors, at the time at which they develop is imperative for the design of interventions. This study examines associations between parental modelling and support and children's physical activity (PA) and consumption of fruit and vegetables (FV), and combinations of these behaviours. Methods : In 2002/3 parents of 775 Australian children aged 10–12 years reported how frequently their child ate a variety of fruits and vegetables in the last week. Children wore accelerometers for eight days during waking hours. Parental modelling and parental support (financial and transport) were self-reported. Binary logistic and multinomial logistic regression analyses examined the likelihood of achieving ≥ 2 hours of PA per day (high PA) and of consuming ≥ 5 portions of FV per day (high FV) and combinations of these behaviors (e.g. high PA/low FV), according to parental modelling and support. Results : Items of parental modelling and support were differentially associated with child behaviours. For example, girls whose parents reported high PA modelling had higher odds of consuming ≥ 5 portions of FV/day (OR = 1.95, 95% CI = 1.32–2.87, p < 0.001). Boys whose parents reported high financial support for snacks/fast foods had higher odds of having 'high PA/low FV' (OR = 2.0, 95% CI = 1.1–3.7). Conclusion : Parental modelling of and support for physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption were differentially associated with these behaviours in children across behavioural domains and with combinations of these behaviours. Promoting parents' own healthy eating and physical activity behaviours as well encouraging parental modelling and support of these behaviours in their children may be important strategies to test in future research. Notes This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Language eng DOI 10.1186/1479-5868-6-34 Field of Research 111706 Epidemiology Socio Economic Objective 920401 Behaviour and Health HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal HERDC collection year 2009 Copyright notice ©2009, Pearson et al Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30020638 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 16 Oct 2009, 11:21:38 EST Mon, 19 Oct 2009, 12:45:50 EST Mon, 01 Mar 2010, 21:56:47 EST Wed, 02 Jul 2014, 14:04:39 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 13:35:42 EST Tue, 05 Dec 2017, 09:04:04 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 14:28:56 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 60 times in TR Web of Science Cited 69 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1164 Abstract Views, 278 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 16 Oct 2009, 11:21:36 EST by Sally Morrigan

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