Sentences with phrase «health behaviours associated»

The second is to investigate the extent to which variation in parenting practices may help to account for inequalities in child health and health behaviours associated with family adversity.

Not exact matches

Good parenting by fathers is associated with better mental health in children, higher quality of later relationships, less criminality, better school attendance and behaviour, and better examination results.»

Another study of 2,900 Australian infants assessed at ages 1, 2 3, 5, 8, 10, and 14 years found that infants breastfed for 6 months or longer, had lower externalizing, internalizing, and total behaviour problem scores throughout childhood and into adolescence than never breastfed and infants fed for less than 6 months.8 These differences remained after statistical control for the presence of both biological parents in the home, low income and other factors associated with poor mental health.

«Even after adjusting for factors ranging from childhood maltreatment and parental unemployment to adult health behaviours including smoking and alcohol consumption, we found that parental addictions were associated with 69 per cent higher odds of depression in adulthood» explains Fuller - Thomson.

Higher levels of sedentary behaviour are associated with worse health, whereas higher levels of physical activity are associated with better health.

Other health - related behaviours were found to be associated with mental wellbeing, but along with smoking only fruit and vegetable consumption was consistently associated in both men and women.

Commenting on the findings Dr Saverio Stranges, the research paper's lead author, said: «Along with smoking, fruit and vegetable consumption was the health - related behaviour most consistently associated with both low and high mental wellbeing.

These behaviours are generally not associated with mental health problems by observers such as teachers and parents.

Sugar consumption was associated with socio - demographic factors, health behaviours, physical health and diet - related factors (Table 1).

Associate Professor Mark Benden and colleagues at the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Public Health observed the behaviour of students over the course of a school year.

To avoid response bias associated with revealing the central research question, the survey was entitled the «Mature Dog Study», with the stated aim being to explore the impact of canine dogs» health and training upon their behaviour (See S1 File for full survey).

The clear social gradient associated with children's vocabulary, emerging literacy, well - being and behaviour is evident from birth to school entry.1 These trajectories track into adolescence and correspond to poorer educational attainment, income and health across the life course.2 — 10 Neuroimaging research extends the evidence for these suboptimal trajectories, showing that children raised in poverty from infancy are more likely to have delayed brain growth with smaller volumetric size of the regions particularly responsible for executive functioning and language.11 This evidence supports the need for further effort to redress inequities that arise from the impact of adversity during the potential developmental window of opportunity in early childhood.

Childhood socioeconomic deprivation, family housing tenure other than consistent home ownership, family disruption, lack of parental interest, behaviour problems, low academic test scores and health difficulties were each clearly associated with poor mental well - being in adulthood when estimated by analysing each childhood measure individually, adjusting for cohort and gender, and in the full model considering all childhood measures, although they were to some extent attenuated.

In addition, little knowledge is available on the effect of parenting support programmes delivered to immigrant parents.24 The few studies available have mostly shown little or no improvement in the mental health of immigrant parents25 26 or even poorer outcomes for immigrant families27 and families with low socioeconomic status.28 Scarcity of studies in this area may simply because few immigrant parents participate in such programmes.24 Several studies have reported difficulties in recruiting and retaining immigrant parents in parenting support programmes.29 30 Factors such as belonging to an ethnic minority, low socioeconomic status, practical aspects or experienced alienation and discrimination all contribute to low participation.28 31 Other studies have demonstrated that low participation and a high dropout rate of immigrant parents are associated with a lack of cultural sensitivity in the intervention, poor information about the parenting programme and lack of trust towards professionals.24 A qualitative study conducted with Somali - born parents in Sweden showed that Somali parents experienced many societal challenges in the new country and in their parenting behaviours.

Prenatal health behaviours, including reductions in tobacco and other substance abuse, have been reported but have not been consistently associated with improved pregnancy outcomes.

Morris, et al. synthesized the results of five large - scale studies that together examined effects on children of 11 different employment - based welfare and anti-poverty programs aimed primarily at single - parent, mother - only families.3 The focus was on identifying the program features that are associated with effects on children's school achievement, social behaviour, and health.

Victims of abuse are at high risk for poor health, related not only to the physical trauma they have endured, but also to high rates of other social risk factors associated with poor health.22 Abused children have high rates of growth problems, untreated vision and dental problems, infectious diseases, developmental delay, mental health and behavioural problems, early and risky sexual behaviours, and other chronic illnesses, but child welfare and health care systems historically have not addressed the health needs of dependent children.23 - 33 Compared to children in foster care, maltreated children who remain at home exhibit similarly high rates of physical, developmental and mental health needs.34

Neglect is by far the most common form of child maltreatment reported to the U.S. child welfare system; 78 % of reports in 2009 were for neglect.1 The short - and long - term outcomes associated with neglect are often serious, including fatalities, physiological changes in the brain, academic difficulties, criminal behaviour and mental health problems.

Harm reduction is a concept aiming to prevent or reduce negative health consequences associated with certain behaviours.

These changes are known to be associated with improved resilience, prevention of later mental health difficulties, and reductions in the development of antisocial behaviour problems.»

Depression has also been associated with a number of health risk behaviours including use of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs, and is more common among women who are overweight or obese.

According to Benson and his colleagues, these assets are associated with three categories of positive mental health outcomes: (a) resilience in the face of adversity; (b) encouragement of positive behaviours (e.g., school success); and (c) prevention of high - risk behaviours (e.g., substance use).

Extensive behaviour problems associated with the disorder may contribute to poor psychological health amongst parents.

Our results suggest that when dealing with adolescents with a drinking problem, it may be important to look for a history of TBI, and conversely, when dealing with adolescents with TBI, it may also be important to look for evidence of hazardous drinking, as co-occurrence appears to be associated with substantially greater mental health problems and conduct behaviours.

This analysis further confirms that highly skilled parenting is associated with more positive health outcomes and health behaviours in children.

For child health behaviours, joint mother - child activities and parental rules appeared more important, as each measure was associated with three out of the four health behaviours studied.

For example, high levels of parent - child conflict were strongly associated with behavioural and emotional difficulties, whereas joint mother - child activities and parental rules appeared more important for health behaviours.

Health outcomes and health behaviours are also associated with experience of family adveHealth outcomes and health behaviours are also associated with experience of family advehealth behaviours are also associated with experience of family adversity.

Low overall parenting skills as measured by the parenting index were associated with greater risk of a number of poorer health outcomes and health behaviours amongst children.

Family adversity was statistically significantly associated with one or more of the child health and health behaviour outcomes, even after controlling for the effect of other family adversity measures.

Although it is instructive to examine various different dimensions of parenting for associations with child health and health behaviours, it may also be useful to consider how a single composite measure of positive parenting is associated with health outcomes.

(1) Which aspects of day - to - day parenting are associated with children's health and health behaviours?

4 IS PARENTING ASSOCIATED WITH CHILD HEALTH AND HEALTH BEHAVIOURS?

At a basic level, maternal mental health was significantly associated with children's emotional well - being, cognitive development, behaviour and their social relationships with peers at 46 months.

This chapter investigates whether parenting is associated with child health outcomes and health behaviours.

Within each «domain», each dimension of parenting was associated with several health / health behaviour outcomes (the one exception being mother - infant attachment, which was only associated with limiting long - term illness).

In turn, maternal health problems have been identified as a significant factor associated with child outcomes, including behaviour difficulties (Barnes et al., 2010; Kelly and Bartley, 2010).

Low overall parenting skill was also associated with all four health behaviours - physical activity, screen time, fruit and vegetable consumption and snacking on crisps, sweets and sugary drinks.

Higher family adversity index scores were associated with higher prevalence of poor child health and health behaviours, with two exceptions.

The specification for IYSS is to provide a comprehensive inter-agency intervention to address conduct / antisocial behaviour and associated mental health problems in children.

It is a period of biological, cognitive and social change of such magnitude and rapidity that it is no surprise to find that it is associated with the onset or exacerbation of a number of health - related problems including depression (1), eating disorders (2), substance abuse and dependence (3 — 5), risky sexual behaviour (6), antisocial and delinquent activity (7) and school dropout (8).

Secure attachment is associated with less engagement in high risk behaviours, fewer mental health problems, and enhanced social skills and coping strategies.

Yet interventions such as improving communication between parents and health care providers, have the potential to address barriers to vaccination associated with parental knowledge and understanding, attitudes, beliefs and behaviour.

Each of these factors was significantly associated with one or more of the health or health behaviour outcomes.

The growing trend in multipartnered fertility, along with high rates of nonmarital births, means that many men are fathering children from multiple women at a distance, 45,46 a trait that is associated with greater externalizing behaviours and poorer health among children.47

They impact children's quality of life and are associated with problems in behaviour, social and emotional functioning, concentration and learning, as well as parent mental health issues.

A systematic review of neighbourhood characteristics and health outcomes only identified one study that considered mental disorders.12, 13 Recent studies have shown that neighbourhood social disorganisation is associated with depressive symptoms14 and that living in socioeconomically deprived areas is associated with depression, 15,16 with higher levels of child problem behaviour, 17 with a higher incidence of non-psychotic disorders.18 A randomised controlled trial that moved families from high poverty neighbourhoods to non-poor neighbourhoods showed that both parents and children who moved reported fewer psychological distress symptoms than did control families who did not move.19

However, when we examined the overall estimated probability of meeting «caseness» on the GHQ - 12, neither child core autism symptoms (social affect and restrictive and repetitive behaviours), nor child level of speech, were associated with caregiver mental health difficulties.

Bullying behaviour occurs in schools worldwide and is likely to be associated with poor health in schoolchildren

Some of these are associated with poor maternal health during pregnancy and / or behaviours that can adversely impact on the developing child.