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Effects of Parent Stress on Weight-Related Parenting Practices and Child Obesity Risk
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Effects of Parent Stress on Weight-Related Parenting Practices and Child Obesity Risk
Yazar:
Shonkoff, Eleanor Barrow Tate, author.
ISBN:
9780438066595
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1 electronic resource (154 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: B.
Advisors: Genevieve F. Dunton Committee members: Ricky Bluthenthal; Chih Ping Chou; Adam Leventhal; Mary Ann Pentz.
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SPECIFIC AIMS: Child obesity continues to be an important public health issue, with child overweight or obesity affecting almost 1 in 3 children in the United States. Recent research suggests that family stressors and parenting stress are associated with increased child obesity risk. However, the mechanisms underlying this link remain unclear. Potentially, parent stress decreases positive weight-related parenting practices, such as holding regular family meals, thereby increasing child obesity risk. The current dissertation examines how family stressors, parenting stress, and perceived psychosocial stress influence child diet by testing cross-sectional associations in a nationally-representative dataset and a longitudinal, mediational model using a regional sample. The first study will address how parenting stress, within the context of life stressors and regular family meals, is associated with child obesity risk; the second study will test a longitudinal model of the downstream effects of parent stress on parenting behaviors, child diet, and the change in waist circumference and added sugar intake; the third study will investigate the emic perspectives of low-income, Hispanic women regarding how stress affects child health using qualitative methodology and a positive deviance-based approach.
Study 1: Associations of Latent Classes of Parenting Stress, Stressors, and Family Meals on Child Body Mass Index in a Nationally-representative Sample of Parents and Children Aim 1: To explore latent classes of mothers using observed patterns of responses to parenting stress, regular family meals, maternal mental health, single parent status, and poverty for children aged 10--17 years. Aim 2: To examine whether mothers' latent class status is predictive of child obesity status, defined as ≥ 95 th BMI percentile.
Study 2: Direct and Indirect Effects of Parent Stress on Child Obesity Risk and Added Sugar Intake in a Sample of Southern California Adolescents Aim 4: To examine longitudinal effects of parent stress on change in child waist circumference and child added sugar intake over one year. Aim 5: To examine indirect effects of parent stress on change in child waist circumference via changes in parent rules about child diet and positive family meal practices. Aim 6: To examine indirect effects of parent stress on change in child dietary added sugar intake via changes in parent rules about child diet and positive family meal practices.
Study 3: A Positive Deviance-Based Qualitative Study of Low-Income Mothers with Children Who Meet Federal Guidelines for Fruit and Vegetable Intake to Improve Obesity Prevention Program Design Aim 6: To locate low-income, urban families who report that their children consume an average of 4--5 servings of fruits and vegetables daily and whose children are healthy, according to BMI percentile (Positive Deviance group). Aim 7: To uncover emic perspectives about stress and coping using in-depth interviews in these families (Positive Deviance group) and in a group of families whose children eat less than 2 fruits and vegetables per day on average and are obese, according to BMI percentile (Comparison group).
Results of the current studies aid child obesity prevention program design by providing knowledge about a novel, yet potentially effective, behavior to modify for improving child diet and physical activity behaviors---parent stress. These studies will reveal how the context of life stressors co-occurs with parenting stress, potentially shaping child health behavior, and examine how parent perceived psychosocial stress relates to subsequent weight-related parenting practices and, in turn, changes in child added sugar intake and waist circumference over one year. Finally, an in-depth qualitative approach will uncover emic perspectives of low-income, Hispanic mothers regarding stress, coping and child health. Obesity prevention programs that target parent stress may both lower child risk for obesity and provide the benefits of improved stress management, such as boosting parent mental health or improving family functioning. Results from these studies will shed light on how the stress process unfolds in mother's lives within the context of other life stressors to affect weight-related parenting practices.
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School code: 0208
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