Fujiwara Takeo, Takao Soshi, Iwase Toshihide, Hamada Jun, Kawachi Ichiro
Department of Social Medicine, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Acta Med Okayama. 2012;66(4):343-50. doi: 10.18926/AMO/48689.
Little is known about the association between social capital and child behaviors. This study aims to investigate that association. A complete population-based, cross-sectional survey was conducted for all the caregivers with preschool children in a rural town in Okayama prefecture in Japan. Two dimensions of individual-level social capital and unhealthy child behaviors were reported by parent-administered questionnaire. We analyzed 354 preschool children (57.6% of all children for whom questionnaires were completed). Children whose main caregiver had high cognitive social capital were 89% less likely to miss breakfast (odds ratio [OR]＝0.11;95% confidence interval [CI]:0.01-1.03). Children whose caregiver had high structural social capital were 71% less likely to wake up late (OR＝0.29;95% CI:0.12-0.71) and 78% less likely to skip tooth brushing more than once per day (OR＝0.22;95% CI:0.05-0.93). Both cognitive and structural social capital were negatively associated with unhealthy child behaviors. A further intervention study is needed to confirm the impact of social capital on child behavior.
关于社会资本与儿童行为之间的关联，人们所知甚少。本研究旨在调查这种关联。对日本冈山县一个乡村城镇中所有有学龄前儿童的照料者进行了一项基于全人群的横断面调查。通过家长填写的问卷报告了个体层面社会资本的两个维度以及儿童的不良行为。我们分析了354名学龄前儿童（占所有完成问卷儿童的57.6%）。主要照料者具有较高认知社会资本的儿童不吃早餐的可能性降低89%（比值比[OR]＝0.11；95%置信区间[CI]：0.01 - 1.03）。照料者具有较高结构社会资本的儿童起床晚的可能性降低71%（OR＝0.29；95% CI：0.12 - 0.71），每天不止一次不刷牙的可能性降低78%（OR＝0.22；95% CI：0.05 - 0.93）。认知和结构社会资本均与儿童不良行为呈负相关。需要进一步的干预研究来证实社会资本对儿童行为的影响。
