Maternal awareness of young children’s physical activity: levels and cross-sectional correlates of overestimation

BMC Public Health

Esther MF van Sluijs²  Cyrus Cooper⁴  Hazel M Inskip⁴  Keith M Godfrey³  Nicholas C Harvey⁴  Simon J Griffin²  Alison M McMinn²  Kathryn R Hesketh¹ 

[1] UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK;MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK;Southampton NIHR Biomedical Research Unit in Nutrition, Diet and Lifestyle, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK;MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK

关键词: Preschool children;    Awareness;    Physical activity;   

Others  :  1161698
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-13-924

 received in 2013-02-14, accepted in 2013-09-11,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

Factors associated with parental awareness of children’s physical activity (PA) levels have not been explored in preschool-aged children. This paper investigates maternal awareness of preschool-aged children’s PA levels and determined correlates associated with maternal overestimation of PA.

Methods

Data from the Southampton Women’s Survey, a UK population-based study, were collected March 2006 through June 2009. Daily minutes of moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) were derived using accelerometry in 478 4-year-old children. Mothers who were realistic or overestimated their child’s PA were identified. Log-binomial regression was used to analyse correlates of maternal overestimation of PA levels in children whose mothers perceived them to be active (n = 438).

Results

40.8% of children were classified as inactive: 89.7% of these were perceived to be active by their mothers (over-estimators). These mothers were more likely to think their child sometimes lacked skills required to be physically active (RR (95% CI) = 1.29(1.03-1.63)) and their child was more likely to attend nursery full-time (RR = 1.53(1.14-2.04)). They were less likely to have older children at home (RR = 0.71(0.56-0.90)).

Conclusions

Almost 90% of mothers of inactive preschool-aged children perceive their child to be active. Nursery-school attendance and having older siblings at home may be important to consider when designing behavioural interventions to increase PA in preschool children.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Hesketh et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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