The relationship between obesity and physical activity of children in the spotlight of their parents’ excessive body weight

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/23/8737/htm" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/23/8737/htm</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17238737" target="_blank" >10.3390/ijerph17238737</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The relationship between obesity and physical activity of children in the spotlight of their parents’ excessive body weight

Original language description

Background: The study reveals the relationships between daily physical activity (PA) and the prevalence of obesity in family members separated according to the participation of their offspring in organized leisure-time physical activity (OLTPA), and answers the question of whether the participation of children in OLTPA is associated with a lower prevalence of obesity in offspring with respect to parental PA and body weight level. Methods: The cross-sectional study included 1493 parent-child dyads (915/578 mother/father-child aged 4–16 years) from Czechia selected by two-stage stratified random sampling with complete data on body weight status and weekly PA gathered over a regular school week between 2013 and 2019. Results: The children who participated in OLTPA ≥ three times a week had a significantly lower (p &lt; 0.005) prevalence of obesity than the children without participation in OLTPA (5.0% vs. 11.1%). Even in the case of overweight/obese mothers/fathers, the children with OLTPA ≥ three times a week had a significantly lower (p &lt; 0.002) prevalence of obesity than the children without OLTPA (6.7%/4.2% vs. 14.9%/10.7%). Conclusions: The cumulative effect of regular participation in OLTPA and a child’s own PA is a stronger alleviator of children’s obesity than their parents’ risk of overweight/obesity.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30306 - Sport and fitness sciences

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

ISSN

1661-7827

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

17

Issue of the periodical within the volume

23

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

8737

UT code for WoS article

000597570500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85096564390