Home environment relationships with children's physical activity, sedentary time, and screen time by socioeconomic status
Tandon PS, Zhou C, Sallis JF, Cain KL, Frank LD, Saelens BE
The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 276 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Cross-sectional study (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- Government
- National Institutes of Health
- Government
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- Government
- National Center for Research Resources
- Government
- NIEHS NIH HHS
- Government
- NCRR NIH HHS
- Grants
- National Center for Research Resources (UL 1RR 025014); National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (ES014240); National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (R01 ES014240); National Institutes of Health (UL1 RR025014); National Institutes of Health (ES014240)
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Publication
- Published
- 2012-01-01 · Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act · vol. 9 · issue 1 · p. 88
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Cited
- 473 citations · more than 100% of similar papers · 23.3× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 38 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet · Physical Activity and Health · Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Keywords
- family environment, socioeconomic status, children's physical activity, sedentary behavior, screen time, parental mediation, childhood obesity
- MeSH
- humans, obesity, exercise, data collection, child behavior, health behavior, parent-child relations, parenting, parents, environment, movement, social class, social environment, play and playthings, video games, bicycling, television, adult, middle aged, child, educational status, income, female, male, sedentary behavior
6 authors
From US, CA
- Pooja Sarin Tandon · correspondingSeattle Children's Research Institute
- Chuan ZhouUniversity of Washington; Seattle Children's Research Institute
- James F. SallisSan Diego State University; University of California San Diego
- Kelli L. CainSan Diego State University; University of California San Diego
- Lawrence Douglas FrankUniversity of British Columbia
- Brian E. SaelensUniversity of Washington; Seattle Children's Research Institute
Abstract
Background
Children in households of lower socioeconomic status (SES) are more likely to be overweight/obese. We aimed to determine if home physical activity (PA) environments differed by SES and to explore home environment mediators of the relation of family SES to children's PA and sedentary behavior.
Methods
Participants were 715 children aged 6 to 11 from the Neighborhood Impact on Kids (NIK) Study. Household SES was examined using highest educational attainment and income. Home environment was measured by parent report on a survey. Outcomes were child's accelerometer-measured PA and parent-reported screen time. Mediation analyses were conducted for home environment factors that varied by SES.
Results
Children from lower income households had greater media access in their bedrooms (TV 52% vs. 14%, DVD player 39% vs. 14%, video games 21% vs. 9%) but lower access to portable play equipment (bikes 85% vs. 98%, jump ropes 69% vs. 83%) compared to higher income children. Lower SES families had more restrictive rules about PA (2.5 vs. 2.0). Across SES, children watched TV/DVDs with parents/siblings more often than they engaged in PA with them. Parents of lower SES watched TV/DVDs with their children more often (3.1 vs. 2.5 days/week). Neither total daily and home-based MVPA nor sedentary time differed by SES. Children's daily screen time varied from 1.7 hours/day in high SES to 2.4 in low SES families. Media in the bedroom was related to screen time, and screen time with parents was a mediator of the SES--screen time relationship.
Conclusions
Lower SES home environments provided more opportunities for sedentary behavior and fewer for PA. Removing electronic media from children's bedrooms has the potential to reduce disparities in chronic disease risk.
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