Human Development Research Center, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla 080020, Colombia.
Department of Psychology, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla 080020, Colombia.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2024 Apr 25;21(5):537. doi: 10.3390/ijerph21050537.
Intervention programs aimed at mitigating the effects of chronic noncommunicable disease (CNDs) focus on promoting healthy lifestyle habits (HLH), especially in the early stages of life. Because of this, different typologies of caregivers have been identified according to HLH during middle childhood and adolescence. However, the available studies have focused on aspects such as nutrition, physical activity, and rest, ignoring other HLHs that are equally important for children's well-being. Likewise, few studies address HLH during the first five years of life and how caregivers affect children's health. In a sample of 544 caregivers of children aged zero to five years from low-income Colombian communities, we established a typology of attitudes toward different HLHs. The results indicate the presence of three clusters that grouped caregivers with (1) positive attitudes toward all HLHs, (2) toward some HLHs, and (3) relatively low positive attitudes toward all HLHs. Membership in clusters with less positive attitudes toward HLHs was also found to be associated with low educational levels and living in rural areas. This study detected profiles of caregivers who may have unhealthy lifestyles, so the results would allow social workers to design differential interventions on HLHs in non-industrialized countries.
干预计划旨在减轻慢性非传染性疾病(CND)的影响,重点是促进健康的生活方式习惯(HLH),尤其是在生命的早期阶段。因此,根据儿童中期和青少年时期的 HLH,已经确定了不同类型的照顾者。然而,现有研究侧重于营养、体育活动和休息等方面,忽略了其他对儿童福祉同样重要的 HLH。同样,很少有研究涉及生命的头五年以及照顾者如何影响儿童的健康。在一个由来自哥伦比亚低收入社区的 544 名零至五岁儿童照顾者组成的样本中,我们确定了对不同 HLH 的态度的类型学。结果表明,存在三种聚类,将对所有 HLH 持积极态度的照顾者(1)、对某些 HLH 持积极态度的照顾者(2)和对所有 HLH 持相对较低积极态度的照顾者(3)分组。对 HLH 持不太积极态度的聚类成员身份也与教育水平低和居住在农村地区有关。这项研究检测到可能有不健康生活方式的照顾者的特征,因此研究结果将使社会工作者能够在非工业化国家对 HLH 进行差异化干预。