ArticleBMC public health2013
Multivariable analysis of the association between fathers' and youths' physical activity in the United States.
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- Development and preliminary validation of a Chinese Physical Activity Parenting Practices Scale (3-6 years).Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Parent-Child Associations in Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour: The FAMIPASS Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Indian fathers are involved in nurturing healthy behaviours in adolescents: A qualitative inquiry.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Relationship between Parents' Physical Activity Level and the Motor Development Level and BMI of Their Children.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- Do physical activity and screen time mediate the association between European fathers' and their children's weight status? Cross-sectional data from the Feel4Diabetes-study.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2019Article
- Links between Adolescents' Engagement in Physical Activity and Their Attachment to Mothers, Fathers, and Peers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Contributions of Research based on the PSID Child Development Supplement.The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · 2018Article
- The Influence of Fathers on Children's Physical Activity and Dietary Behaviors: Insights, Recommendations and Future Directions.Current obesity reports · 2017Review
- Physical activity and sport participation: A systematic review of the impact of fatherhood.Preventive medicine reports · 2016Review
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Abstract
backgroundAlthough the benefits of physical activity have been well-established, a significant number of children and adolescents in the U.S. do not meet the recommended levels of daily physical activity. Parental influences such as parents' physical activity participation may play an important role in affecting youths' physical activity.
methodsThis study used the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine the associations between fathers' vigorous physical activity (VPA) and VPA participation (>0 day(s)/week) and frequency (days/week) of 887 youths aged 10 through 18 based on a nationally representative sample of families in the US. Logistic and negative binomial regression analyses were used to examine the association between past frequency (times/week) and an indicator of recommended (≥3 times/week) frequency of father's VPA and youth's VPA participation and youths' VPA frequency, respectively. We examined the sensitivity to the inclusion of various youth, family, mother's VPA, and contextual control measures. Analyses also were undertaken by gender.
resultsFather's past VPA frequency was positively associated with both youths' VPA participation and with youths' VPA frequency for the full and female samples of youths, even after the inclusion of demographic, socio-economic, and local area characteristics. Father's past recommended VPA frequency was positively associated with youths' VPA participation in the full sample only and with youths' VPA frequency in the female sub-sample only. Simulation results showed that an increase in father's past weekly VPA frequency from zero to the minimum recommended level (three times per week) was associated with an increased predicted probability of youths' weekly VPA participation from approximately 67% to 74% for the full sample (61% to 73% for females and 74% to 77% for males).
conclusionThe results from this study suggest that environmental and/or family based interventions that increase fathers' VPA may help improve youths' VPA.
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