ArticlePublic health nutrition2017
Direct and indirect effects of parent stress on child obesity risk and added sugar intake in a sample of Southern California adolescents.
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ADAPT+: Optimizing an Intervention to Promote Healthy Behaviors in Rural, Latino Youth With Obesity and Their Parents, Using Mindfulness Strategies
Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- Parenting Practices to Prevent Childhood Obesity Among Hispanic Families: A Systematic Literature Review.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2025Pooled it
- Parental Perceived Stress and Its Association With Childhood Obesity in Spain: The PASOS Study.Preventing chronic disease · 2026Article
- Perceptions of Parental Support for Physical Activity and Healthy Eating among School-age Children During COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of healthy eating and active living · 2023Article
- Consumption of Added Sugar among Chinese Toddlers and Its Association with Picky Eating and Daily Screen Time.Nutrients · 2022Article
- A positive deviance-based qualitative study of stress, coping, and feeding practices among low-income, Hispanic mothers whose children do versus do not meet guidelines for fruit and vegetable intake.Health education research · 2020Article
- Economic hardship and child intake of foods high in saturated fats and added sugars: the mediating role of parenting stress among high-risk families.Public health nutrition · 2020Article
- Unraveling Complexity about Childhood Obesity and Nutritional Interventions: Modeling Interactions Among Psychological Factors.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- The Association of Maternal Perceived Stress With Changes in Their Children's Healthy Eating Index (HEI-2010) Scores Over Time.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveResearch indicates that children are at higher risk for obesity if their parents have been exposed to a larger number of stressors, yet little is known about effects of parents' subjective, perceived experience of stress on children's eating behaviours and adiposity and whether weight-related parenting practices (i.e. parent rules and positive family meal practices) mediate this relationship. The present study evaluated the direct and mediated relationship between parent perceived stress and child waist circumference and parent stress and child consumption of added sugars one year later.
designLongitudinal panel data.
settingEleven communities in Southern California, USA. SUBJECTS: Data were collected over two waves from parent-child dyads (n 599). Most parents were female (81 %) and Hispanic (51 %); children were 11 years old on average (sd 1·53; range 7-15 years) and 31 % received free school lunch.
resultsPerceived parent stress was not significantly associated with child waist circumference or consumption of added sugars one year later, and mediating pathways through parenting practices were not significant. However, parent rules were significantly associated with lower child consumption of added sugars (β=-0·14, P<0·001).
conclusionsResults suggest that parent rules about the types of foods children can eat, clearly explained to children, may decrease child consumption of added sugars but not necessarily lead to changes in obesity risk. Parent- and family-based interventions that support development of healthy rules about child eating have the potential to improve child dietary nutrient intake.
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