TY - JOUR
T1 - Predictors of parent-child relationships that support physical activity in Mexican-American families
AU - De La Haye, Kayla
AU - De Heer, Hendrik Dirk
AU - Wilkinson, Anna V.
AU - Koehly, Laura M.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments This study was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the NIH (Z01HG200335 to LMK). We thank Dr. ML Bondy and the Mexican American Cohort Study (MACS) staff for their work with participant recruitment and follow-up while the data collection for this project was on-going. The MACS is funded pursuant to the Comprehensive Tobacco Settlement of 1998 and appropriated by the 76th legislature to the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, by the Caroline W. Law Fund for Cancer Prevention, and the Dan Duncan Family Institute for Risk Assessment and Cancer Prevention. AVW is funded by the National Cancer Institute (CA126988). In addition, we thank the Risk Assessment for Mexican Americans research team for their hard work collecting the data for this project. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Health and Human Services or the U.S. Government. We thank two anonymous reviewers for providing feedback on an earlier version of this manuscript.
PY - 2014/4
Y1 - 2014/4
N2 - Family-based physical activity (PA) interventions would benefit from research that identifies how to build support for PA among family members. This study examined the extent to which relationships of encouragement to do PA, and co-engagement in PA, exist among Mexican-American parents and children, and sought to identify individual, relational, and household factors associated with these dimensions of support. Participants were 224 Mexican-origin adults, with at least one child aged 5-20 years, participating in a larger study conducted between 2008 and 2010. In baseline surveys, adult participants enumerated the names and attributes of their family and kin; this study focuses on 455 parent-child dyads, nested in 118 households. Parental encouragement of PA in their children was found in about half of dyads, and in 20 % of dyads children encouraged parents. Encouragement relationships were highly reciprocal. Reciprocal parent-child encouragement was also positively associated with co-participation in PA; the latter found in just 17 % of dyads. Results indicated that relational, individual, and socio-cultural attributes were associated with PA support among parents and children, and provide insights into how these relationships might be fostered within Mexican-American families.
AB - Family-based physical activity (PA) interventions would benefit from research that identifies how to build support for PA among family members. This study examined the extent to which relationships of encouragement to do PA, and co-engagement in PA, exist among Mexican-American parents and children, and sought to identify individual, relational, and household factors associated with these dimensions of support. Participants were 224 Mexican-origin adults, with at least one child aged 5-20 years, participating in a larger study conducted between 2008 and 2010. In baseline surveys, adult participants enumerated the names and attributes of their family and kin; this study focuses on 455 parent-child dyads, nested in 118 households. Parental encouragement of PA in their children was found in about half of dyads, and in 20 % of dyads children encouraged parents. Encouragement relationships were highly reciprocal. Reciprocal parent-child encouragement was also positively associated with co-participation in PA; the latter found in just 17 % of dyads. Results indicated that relational, individual, and socio-cultural attributes were associated with PA support among parents and children, and provide insights into how these relationships might be fostered within Mexican-American families.
KW - Child
KW - Mexican-American
KW - Parent
KW - Physical activity
KW - Support
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U2 - 10.1007/s10865-012-9471-8
DO - 10.1007/s10865-012-9471-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 23203139
AN - SCOPUS:84896403756
SN - 0160-7715
VL - 37
SP - 234
EP - 244
JO - Journal of Behavioral Medicine
JF - Journal of Behavioral Medicine
IS - 2
ER -