- Title
- Impact of the 'Healthy Dads, Healthy Kids' lifestyle programme on the activity- and diet-related parenting practices of fathers and mothers
- Creator
- Lloyd, A. B.; Lubans, D. R.; Plotnikoff, R. C.; Morgan, P. J.
- Relation
- Pediatric Obesity Vol. 9, Issue 6, p. e149-e155
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ijpo.248
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- Objectives: The aim was to evaluate the impact of the ‘Healthy Dads, Healthy Kids’ programme on fathers’ and mothers’ activity- and diet-related parenting practices. Methods: Overweight/obese fathers (n =87) and their primary school-aged children (56% boys) were randomized to either (i) 7-week programme (n = 45) or (ii) control group (n = 42). The programme involved four sessions for fathers only and three for fathers/children. Mothers were not directly involved. Parenting practices of both fathers and mothers were measured using the parenting strategies for eating and activity scale at baseline and 14-week follow-up. Results: Intention-to-treat analysis using linear mixed models revealed significant group-by-time effects for fathers’ limit setting (P = 0.048, d = 0.36) and reinforcement for multiple lifestyle behaviours (P = 0.001, d = 0.79). No significant intervention effects were found for fathers’ control, monitoring, discipline or mothers’ parenting practices (P > 0.05). Conclusions: The Healthy Dads, Healthy Kids programme had a positive impact on some parenting practices for fathers but not mothers.
- Subject
- children; intervention; obesity; parenting practices
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1304643
- Identifier
- uon:20891
- Identifier
- ISSN:2047-6310
- Language
- eng
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