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Li, Ya-Min; Ou, Jian-Jun; Liu, Li; Zhang, Dan; Zhao, Jing-Ping; Tang, Si-Yuan – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2016
As the link between maternal obesity and risk of autism among offspring is unclear, the present study assessed this association. A systematic search of an electronic database was performed to identify observational studies that examined the association between maternal obesity and autism. The outcome measures were odds ratios comparing offspring…
Descriptors: Obesity, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Meta Analysis
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Brown, Blakely; Harris, Kari; Dybdal, Laura; Malich, Julia; Bodnar, Brenda; Hall, Emily – Health Education Journal, 2019
Objective: This study investigated the feasibility of delivering health-related short text messages to parents with the goal of reducing obesity risk among their children aged 3--5 years. Design: Quasi-experimental design involving one experimental group of 17 parents. Setting: Rural American Indian reservation. Methods: During the 5-week…
Descriptors: Child Health, Health Promotion, Rural Areas, Food
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Vogeltanz-Holm, Nancy; Holm, Jeffrey – Health Education & Behavior, 2018
Background: Childhood obesity is a significant but largely "modifiable" health risk, disproportionately affecting socioeconomically disadvantaged, racial/ethnic minority, and rural children. Elementary school-aged children typically experience the greatest increases in excess weight gain and therefore are important targets for reducing…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Elementary School Students, Obesity, Risk
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Wang, Y. Claire; Vine, Seanna; Hsiao, Amber; Rundle, Andrew; Goldsmith, Jeff – Journal of School Health, 2015
Background: Income disparities in US youth in academic achievement appear to widen during the summer because of discontinued learning among children from lower-income households. Little is known about whether behavioral risk factors for childhood obesity, such as diet and physical activity, also demonstrate a widening difference by income when…
Descriptors: Family Income, Child Health, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
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Glied, Sherry; Oellerich, Don – Future of Children, 2014
Parents' health and children's health are closely intertwined--healthier parents have healthier children, and vice versa. Genetics accounts for some of this relationship, but much of it can be traced to environment and behavior, and the environmental and behavioral risk factors for poor health disproportionately affect families living in…
Descriptors: Health Programs, Family Programs, Child Health, Barriers
Adamson, Peter – UNICEF, 2013
Part 1 of the Report Card presents a league table of child well-being in 29 of the world's advanced economies. Part 2 looks at what children say about their own well-being (including a league table of children's life satisfaction). Part 3 examines changes in child well-being in advanced economies over the first decade of the 2000s, looking at each…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Children, Well Being, Life Satisfaction
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Harris, David E.; Blum, Janet Whatley; Bampton, Matthew; O'Brien, Liam M.; Beaudoin, Christina M.; Polacsek, Michele; O'Rourke, Karen A. – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2011
Objective: To examine the relationship between stores selling calorie-dense food near schools and student obesity risk, with the hypothesis that high availability predicts increased risk. Methods: Mail surveys determined height, weight, and calorie-dense food consumption for 552 students at 11 Maine high schools. Driving distance from all food…
Descriptors: Proximity, Obesity, Body Composition, Mail Surveys
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Datar, Ashlesha; Nicosia, Nancy – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2012
Despite limited empirical evidence, there is growing concern that junk food availability in schools has contributed to the childhood obesity epidemic. In this paper, we estimate the effects of junk food availability on body mass index (BMI), obesity, and related outcomes among a national sample of fifth graders. Unlike previous studies, we address…
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Obesity, Body Composition, Nutrition
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Park, Eunkyung – Journal of School Health, 2011
Background: Weight perception has been studied with a limited focus on "feeling overweight." This study, using a more inclusive definition of overestimation and underestimation, examines adolescents' weight perception focusing on how accurate it is in relation to body mass index (BMI)-based weight status and how it varies across socio-demographic…
Descriptors: Obesity, Body Composition, Females, Ethnicity
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Skouteris, Helen; McCabe, Marita; Ricciardelli, Lina A.; Milgrom, Jeannette; Baur, Louise A.; Aksan, Nazan; Dell'Aquila, Daniela – Early Child Development and Care, 2012
Child obesity research has generally not examined multiple layers of parent-child relationships during weight-related activities such as feeding, eating and play. A literature review was conducted to locate empirical studies that measured parent-child interactions and child eating and child weight variables; five papers met the inclusion criteria…
Descriptors: Obesity, Intervention, Prevention, Parent Child Relationship
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Van Hook, Jennifer; Baker, Elizabeth – Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2010
Previous research fails to find a consistent association between obesity and acculturation for children. We theorize that social isolation shelters children of immigrants from the U.S. "obesiogenic" environment, but this protective effect is offset by immigrant parents' limited capacity to identify and manage this health risk in the United States.…
Descriptors: Obesity, Females, Acculturation, Young Children
Bobo, Nichole; Schantz, Shirley; Kaufman, Francine R.; Kollipara, Sobha – American Journal of Health Education, 2009
Among children and youth who develop type 2 diabetes (T2DM) there are a number of genetic and environmental factors that lead to a combination of insulin resistance and relative-cell secretory failure of the pancreas. These factors include ethnicity (highest in American Indian youth), obesity, sedentary behavior, family history of T2DM, puberty,…
Descriptors: Obesity, Intervention, School Nurses, Diabetes
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Sormunen, Marjorita; Tossavainen, Kerttu; Turunen, Hannele – School Community Journal, 2011
Although Finland currently holds the top ratings in international comparisons ranking education and children's health, there is evidence that the health of Finnish adolescents is being threatened by increasing obesity, serious risk behavior, and other health problems. In addition, subjective well-being at school is regarded as low by students.…
Descriptors: Obesity, International Studies, Child Health, Cooperation
Keener, Dana; Goodman, Kenneth; Lowry, Amy; Zaro, Susan; Khan, Laura Kettel – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009
America has a serious weight problem. Two-thirds of adults and nearly one-fifth of children in the United States are overweight, placing them at greater risk for heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic diseases including cancer and arthritis. Furthermore, obesity and its related health problems are placing a major strain on the U.S. health care…
Descriptors: Public Health, Body Weight, Obesity, Risk
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Arden, Rosalind; Gottfredson, Linda S.; Miller, Geoffrey – Intelligence, 2009
We suggest that an over-arching "fitness factor" (an index of general genetic quality that predicts survival and reproductive success) partially explains the observed associations between health outcomes and intelligence. As a proof of concept, we tested this idea in a sample of 3654 US Vietnam veterans aged 31-49 who completed five cognitive…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Obesity, Physical Health, Child Health
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