Sithole Fortune, Veugelers Paul J
School of Public Health, University of Alberta, 13-106D Clinical Sciences Building, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Health Rep. 2008 Sep;19(3):19-24.
This article compares child reports of their physical and sedentary activities with those of their parents.
Data were obtained from the 2003 Children's Lifestyle and School-performance Study (CLASS), a survey of Grade 5 students and their parents in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. Survey data with responses from Grade 5 students and their parents about the students' physical and sedentary activities were used. Agreement between the parent and child reports was evaluated with weighted kappa. Multilevel logistic regression was used to compare the parent and child reports in relation to the child body weight.
Agreement between the 3958 pairs of parent and child reports was low to fair. Relative to normal weight children, those who were overweight or obese reported more participation in organized and leisure sports and less time watching television than what their parents perceived. Unlike child self-reports, parent reports demonstrated statistically significant associations between the child's activities and body weight.
Based on these findings, parent reports seem to provide a more accurate assessment of activity levels of children younger than 12.
本文比较了儿童与其父母关于儿童身体活动和久坐活动的报告。
数据取自2003年儿童生活方式与学业表现研究（CLASS），该研究对加拿大新斯科舍省五年级学生及其父母进行了调查。使用了来自五年级学生及其父母关于学生身体活动和久坐活动的调查数据。采用加权kappa评估父母与儿童报告之间的一致性。使用多水平逻辑回归比较父母与儿童关于儿童体重的报告。
3958对父母与儿童报告之间的一致性为低到中等。与正常体重儿童相比，超重或肥胖儿童报告的有组织和休闲运动参与度更高，看电视时间比父母感知的更少。与儿童自我报告不同，父母报告显示儿童活动与体重之间存在统计学上的显著关联。
基于这些发现，父母报告似乎能更准确地评估12岁以下儿童的活动水平。
