Penn State University, Prevention Research Center, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
J Adolesc Health. 2013 Aug;53(2):300-2. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2013.03.010. Epub 2013 May 1.
Recent studies suggest that parents maintain influence as their adolescents transition into college. Advances in communication technology make frequent communication between parents and college students easy and affordable. This study examines the protective effect of parent-college student communication on student eating and physical activity behaviors.
Participants were 746 first-year, first-time, full-time students at a large university in the United States who completed a baseline and 14 daily web-based surveys.
On days when students communicated with their parents for 30 minutes or more, they consumed fruits and vegetables, an additional 14%, more times and were 50% more likely to engage in 30 minutes or more of physical activity, consistent with a protective within-person effect.
Encouraging parents to communicate with their college-aged children could improve these students' daily eating and physical activity behaviors and should be explored as a relatively easy and affordable component of a student preventive intervention.
最近的研究表明,父母在青少年进入大学期间仍能发挥影响。通讯技术的进步使得父母与大学生之间频繁沟通变得既容易又负担得起。本研究考察了父母与大学生之间的沟通对学生饮食和身体活动行为的保护作用。
参与者为美国一所大型大学的 746 名一年级、首次入学、全日制学生,他们完成了基线和 14 天的基于网络的每日调查。
当学生与父母沟通 30 分钟或更长时间时,他们每天多吃 14%的水果和蔬菜,并且更有可能进行 30 分钟或更长时间的身体活动,这与个体内的保护效应一致。
鼓励父母与上大学的孩子沟通,可以改善这些学生的日常饮食和身体活动行为,因此可以将其作为学生预防干预的一个相对容易且负担得起的组成部分进行探索。