Parental feeding, child eating and physical activity: differences in children living with and without asthma
Abstract
This study aimed to establish the differences in parental attitudes toward feeding and activity, as well as child eating and activity levels, between families of children living with and without asthma. Parents of children and young people aged between 10 and 16 years living both with asthma (n = 310) and without asthma (n = 311) completed measures for parental feeding, parental attitudes toward child exercise, child eating, child activity level and asthma control. Children living with asthma had a significantly higher BMIz (BMI standardised for weight and age) score, were significantly more likely to emotionally overeat and desired to drink more than their peers without asthma. Parents of children with asthma reported greater use of food to regulate emotions, restriction of food for weight control, monitoring of child activity, pressure to exercise and control over child activity. When asthma symptoms were controlled, parental restriction of food for weight management predicted greater child BMIz scores, and higher child activity predicted lower child BMIz scores. These relationships were not found to be significant for children with inadequately controlled asthma. Differences in parental attitudes toward feeding and exercise, and child eating and exercise behaviors, between families may help to explain the increased obesity risk for children with asthma.Citation
Clarke R, Heath G, Nagakumar P, Pattison H, Farrow C. (2021) Parental Feeding, Child Eating and Physical Activity: Differences in Children Living with and without Asthma. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(7):3452. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18073452Publisher
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public HealthAdditional Links
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© 2021 The Authors. Published by MDPI. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18073452ISSN
1660-4601ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.3390/ijerph18073452
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