Parental education related to their children's health in late childhood and early adolescence for Pacific families within New Zealand.

Autor: Schluter PJ; School of Health Sciences - Te Kura Mātai Hauora, and Child Well-being Research Institute - Te Kāhui Pā Harakeke, University of Canterbury - Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, 8140, New Zealand. philip.schluter@canterbury.ac.nz.; School of Clinical Medicine, Primary Care Clinical Unit, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. philip.schluter@canterbury.ac.nz., Kokaua J; Division of Health Sciences, Va'a O Tautai, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand., Tautolo ES; Centre for Pacific Health and Development Research, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand., Iusitini L; Centre for Pacific Health and Development Research, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand., Richards R; Division of Health Sciences, Va'a O Tautai, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand., Ruhe T; Division of Health Sciences, Va'a O Tautai, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Scientific reports [Sci Rep] 2022 Mar 29; Vol. 12 (1), pp. 5313. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Mar 29.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-09282-x
Abstrakt: Pacific people continue to carry a disproportionately heavy social and health burden relative to their non-Pacific peers in New Zealand, and those with less formal education are experiencing social and health declines. Improving education and educational needs is seen as being central to decreasing these health inequities. While expansive, the empirical evidence-base supporting this stance is relatively weak and increasingly conflicting. Using a large birth cohort of 1,368 eligible Pacific children, together with their mothers and fathers, this study longitudinally investigates the relationship between paternal education levels and sentinel measures of their children's physical health, mental health and health risk taking behaviours during late childhood and early adolescence. In adjusted analyses, it was found that mothers and fathers who undertook further schooling over the 0-6 years postpartum period had children with significantly lower logarithmically transformed body mass index increases at 11-years and 14-years measurement waves compared to 9-years levels than those who did not study (p = 0.017 and p = 0.022, respectively). Furthermore, fathers who undertook further schooling over this 0-6 years postpartum period also had children with significantly lower odds of risk taking behaviours (p = 0.013). These results support policy aimed at increasing educational opportunities for Pacific people in New Zealand.
(© 2022. The Author(s).)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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