{"doi":"10.17615/3576-hz35","title":"Parent’s Physical Activity Associated With Preschooler Activity in Underserved Populations","abstract":"INTRODUCTION: In the U.S., children from low-income families are more likely to be obese. The impact of parent modeling of physical activity (PA) and sedentary behaviors in low-income American ethnic minorities is unclear, and studies examining objective measures of preschooler and parent PA are sparse. METHODS: This cross-sectional study examined 1,003 parent-child pairs who were of low income, largely Latino and African American, and living in one of two geographically disparate metropolitan areas in the U.S. Parents and children wore GT3X/GT3X+ accelerometers for an average of >12 hours/day (7:00am-9:00pm) for 1 week (September 2012 to May 2014). Analysis occurred in 2015-2016. RESULTS: About 75% of children were Latino and >10% were African American. Mean child age was 3.9 years. The majority of children (60%) were normal weight (BMI ≥50th and <85th percentiles), and more than a third were overweight/obese. Children's total PA was 6.03 hours/day, with 1.5 hours spent in moderate to vigorous PA (MVPA). Covariate-adjusted models showed a monotonic, positive association between parent and child minutes of sedentary behavior (β=0.10, 95% CI=0.06, 0.15) and light PA (β=0.06; 95% CI=0.03, 0.09). Child and parent MVPA were positively associated up to 40 minutes/day of parent MVPA, but an inverse association was observed when parental MVPA was beyond 40 minutes/day (p=0.002). CONCLUSIONS: Increasing parental PA and reducing sedentary behavior correlate with increased PA-related behaviors in children. However, more work is needed to understand the impact of high levels of parental MVPA on the MVPA levels of their children.","journal":"UNC Libraries","year":2020,"id":135154,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9142,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2020-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":455168,"name":"Meghan M. JaKa","orcid":"0000-0001-5744-7215","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":314909,"name":"Simone A. French","orcid":"0000-0003-3413-5985","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":231463,"name":"Kelly R. Evenson","orcid":"0000-0002-3720-5830","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":406398,"name":"Charlotte Pratt","orcid":"0000-0002-6580-9500","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":455174,"name":"Shrikant I. Bangdiwala","orcid":"0000-0002-3111-0689","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":382525,"name":"Shari L. Barkin","orcid":"0000-0003-1585-3818","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":547600,"name":"Archana P. Lamichhane","orcid":null,"position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":591889,"name":"Jorge A. Banda","orcid":"0000-0002-5472-7526","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":407007,"name":"Maciej S. Buchowski","orcid":"0000-0002-0566-1743","position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":455883,"name":"June Stevens","orcid":null,"position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":0,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-18T23:16:31.787520Z","pmid":null,"pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}