- Title
- Paternal lifestyle-related parenting practices mediate changes in children's dietary and physical activity behaviors: findings from the healthy dads, healthy kids community randomized controlled trial
- Creator
- Lloyd, Adam B.; Lubans, David R.; Plotnikoff, Ronald C.; Morgan, Philip J.
- Relation
- NHMRC
- Relation
- Journal of Physical Activity and Health Vol. 12, Issue 9, p. 1327-1335
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2014-0367
- Publisher
- Human Kinetics
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Background: This study examined potential parenting-related mediators of children's physical activity and dietary behavior change in the Healthy Dads, Healthy Kids (HDHK) community program. Methods: A randomized controlled trial was conducted with 45 overweight/obese (mean [SD] age = 39.8 [5.4] years; BMI = 32.4 [3.8]) fathers and their children (n = 77; 58% boys; mean [SD] age = 7.7 [2.5] years). Families were randomized to either the HDHK program or wait-list control group. The program involved 7 sessions. Fathers and their children were assessed at baseline and at 14 weeks for physical activity (pedometery) and core food intake (Questionnaire). Fathers' lifestyle-related parenting practices included; self-efficacy, beliefs, modeling, logistic support, rules, cophysical activity, shared mealtime frequency and intentions. Results: Significant intervention effects were found for cophysical activity and modeling physical activity. Cophysical activity mediated children's physical activity in the intervention ('mediated effect,' AB = 653, 95% CI = 4-2050) and was responsible for 59.5% of the intervention effect. Fathers' beliefs mediated children's percent energy from core foods (AB = 1.51, 95% CI = 0.05-5.55) and accounted for 72.9% of the intervention effect. Conclusions: Participation in the HDHK program positively impacted on fathers' cophysical activity with their child and beliefs about healthy eating which mediated changes in children's diet and physical activity behaviors.
- Subject
- obesity; overweight; youth; intervention study
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1333656
- Identifier
- uon:27118
- Identifier
- ISSN:1543-3080
- Language
- eng
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