Relationship of Sleep Duration and Regularity with Dietary Intake Among Preschool-Aged Children with Obesity from Low-Income Families

With the increasing interest in mental retardation more articles, monographs, and books appear on the subject. The Biosocial Basis of Mental Retardation is a collection of seven essays originally delivered at the John Hopkins Hospital. Although pediatricians have turned their attention in mental retardation mostly to the biological components of mental retardation, there is a growing awareness that social and psychological factors also play a significant role. The interrelationship of biological and social factors is virtually an unchartered sea. The several authors who originally presented these essays are attempting to highlight some of the social factors and, where appropriate, to point out how some of the social features relate to biological ones. For example, the well known relationship of the high incidence of prematurity in low socioeconomic group families is a fact most pediatricians know but the implication of this fact as far as prevention is concerned is a large and important concern and as yet poorly understood. With the increasing amount of federal interest in programs for low income families, many pediatricians will want to become better informed about the implications. Some of these points are considered in the chapter by Janet Hardy. For the person concerned with medical remedies for mental retardation, there will be little of interest in this book. On the other hand, for those who are anxious to know more about social and psychological factors as they relate to mental retardation, this is a very useful and fascinating compendium of articles. Particularly intriguing are the articles by Eli Ginzberg who discusses the mentally handicapped in an increasingly technological society.

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Associations between parent-reported and objectively measured sleep duration and timing in infants at age 6 months

SLEEP ◽

10.1093/sleep/zsaa217 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Mirja Quante ◽

Benjamin Hong ◽

Tayla von Ash ◽

Xinting Yu ◽

Emily R Kaplan ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sleep Duration ◽

Low Income ◽

Sleep Onset ◽

Sleep Diary ◽

Study Cohort ◽

Linear Regression Models ◽

Night Sleep ◽

Low Income Families ◽

Objectively Measured ◽

Nighttime Sleep

Abstract Study Objectives To compare the estimates of sleep duration and timing from survey, diary, and actigraphy in infants at age 6 months, overall and by select demographics and other factors. Methods In total, 314 infants participating in the Rise & SHINE (Sleep Health in Infancy & Early Childhood study) cohort in Boston, MA, USA, wore an actigraph on their left ankle for 7 days. Parents concurrently completed a sleep diary and the expanded version of the Brief Infant Sleep Questionnaire. Concordance between parent-reported and objective sleep estimates was assessed using Bland–Altman plots, Spearman’s rank correlations, intraclass correlations, and linear regression models. Results Mean infant age was 6.4 (0.6 SD) months; 51% were female and 42% were Non-Hispanic white. Mean total sleep duration using actigraphy was 526 (67 SD) minutes per night, 143 (42 SD) minutes per day, and 460 (100 SD) minutes during the longest nighttime sleep period. Relative to actigraphy, parent-completed survey and diary overestimated total day (by 29 and 31 minutes, respectively) and night sleep duration (67 and 43 minutes, respectively) and underestimated the longest sleep (58 minutes), with the highest agreement for sleep onset and offset timing (differences < 30 minutes). There was a tendency toward greater bias among short- and long-sleeping infants. Self-reporting bias for diary-measured longest nighttime sleep and total night sleep duration was higher in infants of parents reporting a problem with their baby’s night awakenings and in low-income families, respectively. Conclusions Our findings underscore the need to be cautious when comparing findings across studies using different sleep assessment methods.

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Relationship of child-feeding practices to overweight in low-income Mexican-American preschool-aged children

Journal of the American Dietetic Association ◽

10.1016/j.jada.2004.04.030 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 104 (7) ◽

pp. 1110-1119 ◽

Cited By ~ 83

Author(s):

Hugo R. Melgar-Quiñonez ◽

Lucia L. Kaiser

Keyword(s):

Low Income ◽

Mexican American ◽

Feeding Practices ◽

Child Feeding ◽

Child Feeding Practices ◽

Relationship Of ◽

Preschool Aged Children

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Evaluation of Dietary Intake of Korean School-aged Children from Low-income Families by Comparing with the Korean Food Guide: Analysis of the Data from the 2001 National Health and Nutrition Survey

The Korean Journal of Nutrition ◽

10.4163/kjn.2009.42.8.691 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 42 (8) ◽

pp. 691 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Jae Eun Shim ◽

Jihyun Yoon ◽

Kiwon Lee ◽

Sooyoun Kwon

Keyword(s):

Dietary Intake ◽

National Health ◽

Low Income ◽

Nutrition Survey ◽

School Aged Children ◽

Health And Nutrition ◽

Low Income Families ◽

Korean Food

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Food insecurity is associated with dietary intake and body size of Korean children from low-income families in urban areas

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition ◽

10.1038/sj.ejcn.1601877 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 57 (12) ◽

pp. 1598-1604 ◽

Cited By ~ 55

Author(s):

S-Y Oh ◽

M J Hong

Keyword(s):

Body Size ◽

Dietary Intake ◽

Food Insecurity ◽

Low Income ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Korean Children ◽

Low Income Families

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The Influence of Service Usefulness of Community Children's Centers of Problem Solving Abilities Mediated by Self-Esteem for Low-Income Families

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering - 2 ◽

10.35940/ijrte.b1052.0782s619 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (2S6) ◽

pp. 275-279

Keyword(s):

Problem Solving ◽

Low Income ◽

Panel Study ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Mediating Effect ◽

Korean Children ◽

Practical Strategy ◽

Low Income Families ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

The purpose of this research was to examine the level of community child center help service influence to children in low-income with regards to their problem solving ability and to measure the relationship of its effect to the child’s self-esteem. This research used a nationwide surveyed data of community child center surveyed by Panel Study on Korean Children and was analyzed using a structural modeling. The survey was conducted in 2016 from July to August, survey questionnaires were sent to different community child center nationwide, the subjects were elementary 4th graders, and survey garnered 662 respondents. All this analysis were done using SPSS ver.21 and AMOS ver.21 program. The research results were the following. First, it shows that the higher the level of community child center help service to children in low-income the child’s problem solving ability goes high. Second, as the community child center help service increases the child’s self-esteem increases as well. Third, it shows that as self-esteem increases the problem solving ability goes high. Fourth, it also shows that the relationship of the effect between community child center help service to child in low-income and problem solving ability were statistically significant both total and indirect effect. Furthermore, it shows that relationship of community child center help service to child in low-income and problem solving ability has a mediating effect to child self-esteem. Base on this result, we propose that a better convergence of intervention and practical strategy must be impost to continue the betterment of child in low-income’s problem solving abilities.

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