Trial reportJournal of pediatric psychology2019
Featured Article: Bidirectional Effects of Sleep and Sedentary Behavior Among Toddlers: A Dynamic Multilevel Modeling Approach.
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- Infants' and toddlers' physical activity and sedentary time as measured by accelerometry: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2020Pooled it
- Longitudinal Associations Among Diet Quality, Physical Activity and Sleep Onset Consistency With Body Mass Index z-Score Among Toddlers in Low-income Families.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2021Trial
- Ecological Momentary Assessment of Voice & Psychological Factors: Group & Individual Mechanisms.The Laryngoscope · 2026Article
- Movement Behaviors and the Role of Self-Reported Symptoms and Well-Being: A Dynamic Structural Equation Modeling Approach Among Head and Neck Cancer Patients.Psycho-oncology · 2025Article
- What is the relationship between family closeness, social support, and adolescent physical activity? Evidence from longitudinal tracking.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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- Dynamic structural equation modelling evaluating the progressively lowered stress threshold as an explanation for behavioural symptoms of dementia.Journal of advanced nursing · 2022Article
- Sleep and physical activity - the dynamics of bi-directional influences over a fortnight.BMC public health · 2022Article
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- Introduction to the Coordinated Special Issue on eHealth/mHealth in Pediatric Psychology.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine the bidirectional effects of objectively measured nighttime sleep and sedentary activity among toddlers.
methodActical accelerometer data were analyzed for 195 toddlers participating in an obesity prevention trial (mean age = 27 months). Toddlers wore the accelerometers for up to 7 consecutive days. Nighttime sleep was defined as the number of minutes asleep between the hours of 8 pm and 8 am the following morning. Sedentary behavior (in minutes) was defined using previously established Actical cut points for toddlers. Variables were lagged and parsed into latent within- and between-person components, using dynamic structural equation modeling (DSEM).
resultsToddlers spent an average of 172 min (∼3 hr) in sedentary activity and slept an average of 460 min (∼8 hr) per night. An autoregressive cross-lagged multilevel model revealed significant autoregression for both sleep and sedentary activity. Cross-lagged values revealed that decreased sleep predicted increased next-day sedentary activity, and sedentary activity predicted that night's sleep. For 89% of the sample, the within-person standardized cross-lagged effects of sleep on sedentary were larger than the cross-lagged effects of sedentary on sleep.
conclusionsResults suggest that, on average, nighttime sleep is a stronger predictor of subsequent sedentary behavior (compared with the reverse), and this is the case for the majority of toddlers. Findings highlight the importance of interindividual associations between sleep and sedentary activity. The present study is an example of how DSEM methods can be used to ask questions about Granger-causal cross-lagged relations between variables, both within and between individuals.
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