Parenting Educational Styles and Obesity Association in Mexican Children.

Autor:	Carrillo-Aguiar LA; Education, Family Medicine Unit Number 77 of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), Ciudad Madero, MEX., Ramos-Hinojosa KN; Family Medicine, Family Medicine Unit Number 24 of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), García, MEX., Salas-Flores R; School of Medicine of Tampico 'Dr. Alberto Romo Caballero', Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas (UAT), Tampico, MEX., Cervantes-López MJ; School of Medicine of Tampico 'Dr. Alberto Romo Caballero', Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas (UAT), Tampico, MEX., Martínez-Pérez OE; Family Medicine, Family Medicine Unit Number 77 of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), Ciudad Madero, MEX., González-Pérez B; Family Medicine, Family Medicine Unit Number 38 of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), Tampico, MEX.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Cureus [Cureus] 2024 Jul 22; Vol. 16 (7), pp. e65106. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 22 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI:	10.7759/cureus.65106
Abstrakt:	Introduction Obesity can develop from childhood through adulthood and is influenced by genetics, family, and environmental factors. Parenting educational style is believed to contribute to an individual's future weight status. This study aims to assess the connection between parenting educational style and weight-related issues. Methods The study involved 487 participants, including either the mother and/or father and their school-age child, aged 6-11, at a primary care unit in Mexico. Fifty-two records were excluded due to incomplete questionnaires, electronic records, and refusal of informed consent. The study group consisted of 435 adults and children who completed an adapted version of the Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire (PSDQ) tailored for the Mexican population. The researchers also gathered anthropometric measurements of the primary caregiver (parent) and the child from the electronic record to calculate their BMI and nutritional status. We used IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 25.0 (Released 2017; IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA) to analyze the data. The Pearson Chi-square and Fisher's exact test were applied to examine interaction terms between variables, revealing a statistically significant p-value of <0.05. Results Out of the 435 patients examined, there were 229 (52.6%) children and 206 (47.3%) adult patients. Grade 2 obesity was present in 90 (39.3%) school-age children and 104 (50.5%) adult patients. The family's parenting educational style, as determined by the PSDQ questionnaire, was found to be permissive in 143 (69.4%) patients, authoritarian in 33 (16.0%) patients, and authoritative in 30 (14.6%) patients. Conclusions Parenting educational style and the PSDQ tool can be used to assess how parents influence the development of obesogenic home environments. We observed that a permissive parenting educational style was linked to a more obesogenic environment, whereas an authoritative parenting educational style was linked to a less obesogenic environment. Competing Interests: Human subjects: Consent was obtained or waived by all participants in this study. Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) issued approval R-2022-2804-063. Animal subjects: All authors have confirmed that this study did not involve animal subjects or tissue. Conflicts of interest: In compliance with the ICMJE uniform disclosure form, all authors declare the following: Payment/services info: All authors have declared that no financial support was received from any organization for the submitted work. Financial relationships: All authors have declared that they have no financial relationships at present or within the previous three years with any organizations that might have an interest in the submitted work. Other relationships: All authors have declared that there are no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work. (Copyright © 2024, Carrillo-Aguiar et al.)
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