Simon Christine L, Gordon Derrick M, Shiyko Mariya P, Viswanath Kasisomayajula, Kawachi Ichiro
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale University School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, 389 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA.
Matern Child Health J. 2022 May;26(5):1160-1167. doi: 10.1007/s10995-022-03414-5. Epub 2022 Mar 31.
To examine whether fathers' residency status is associated with increased BMI z-scores among young and pre-adolescent children.
Propensity score matching was used to examine the effects of fathers' residency status on child BMI z-scores for children between the ages of 2-5 and 9-11 years old. Fathers self-reported their residency status as either being residential or nonresidential, based on the amount of time they lived in the same household as the child enrolled in the study. We conducted a series of cross-sectional matched analyses using three waves of data from 1448 families who participated in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study.
We did not find a difference in BMI z-scores among children based on their father's residency status for children between the ages of 2-5 years old but did find a marginally significant difference in BMI z-scores for children between 9 and 11 years old.
Our findings suggest that fathers' residency status is not associated with increased BMI z-scores among young children but may be slightly predictive of differences in BMI z-scores among pre-adolescent children. The results from our study begin to explore the scientific gains of analyzing the influence of diverse family structures on childhood obesity outcomes. Our focus on fathers' residency status adds to the literature by highlighting some of the risks and resources that fathers from diverse family structures bring to family functioning and children's health and wellbeing.
研究父亲的居住状况是否与幼儿及青春期前儿童的体重指数（BMI）z评分升高有关。
采用倾向得分匹配法，研究父亲居住状况对2至5岁以及9至11岁儿童BMI z评分的影响。父亲根据其与参与研究的孩子同住一个家庭的时间，自我报告其居住状况为常住或非常住。我们使用了参与“脆弱家庭与儿童福祉研究”的1448个家庭的三轮数据进行了一系列横断面匹配分析。
对于2至5岁的儿童，我们未发现其BMI z评分因父亲居住状况而存在差异，但对于9至11岁的儿童，我们确实发现其BMI z评分存在微弱的显著差异。
我们的研究结果表明，父亲的居住状况与幼儿的BMI z评分升高无关，但可能对青春期前儿童的BMI z评分差异有轻微的预测作用。我们的研究结果开始探索分析不同家庭结构对儿童肥胖结果影响的科学成果。我们对父亲居住状况的关注通过强调不同家庭结构的父亲给家庭功能以及儿童健康和福祉带来的一些风险和资源，丰富了相关文献。
