Temperament and Parenting: Risks for Rapid Weight Gain and Childhood Obesity

气质与养育子女：体重快速增加和儿童肥胖的风险

• 批准号: 7730462
• 负责人: CYNTHIA A. STIFTER
• 金额: $ 53.81万
• 依托单位: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-20 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7730462
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Age; Alleles; Behavior; Behavioral; Buffers; Characteristics; Child; Childhood; Constitutional; Crying; Cues; Data; Defect; Development; Distress; Dopamine; Dopamine Receptor; Emotional; Epidemic; Food; Fright; Genes; Genetic; Genotype; Goals; Hand; Health; Hunger; Individual Differences; Infant; Laboratories; Learning; Life; Link; Living Wills; Methods; Obesity; Outcome; Overweight; Parenting behavior; Parents; Pathway interactions; Personality; Persons; Phenotype; Prevalence; Questionnaires; Receptor Gene; Regulation; Reporting; Research; Rewards; Risk; Risk Factors; Role; Satiation; Surveys; System; Telephone; Temperament; Toddler; Visit; Weight; Weight Gain; Withdrawal; base; diaries; early childhood; eating in absence of hunger; feeding; high risk; infancy; infant temperament; meetings; obesity in children; parental role; relating to nervous system; response; social; successful intervention; trait

Obesity in childhood is increasing at an alarming rate. For children ages 2-5 years, the prevalence of overweight children has almost tripled over the last 30 years, from 5% to 13.9%, Obesity is a multifactorial condition with varying causes including genetic, social, cultural, and behavioral factors, all of which may interact. The aims of the present proposal are to examine a number of these factors and their role in rapid weight gain in infancy and overweight in early childhood. We propose to investigate the interaction between genetically-based child characteristics and early parent feeding practices as risk factors for childhood obesity. More specifically, the parent feeding practices of using food to soothe infant distress is explicitly to interact with the temperament trait of urgency, which is characterized by a sensitive reward system, to increase the risk of childhood obesity. This hypothesis is guided by the central principle of the proposed study; that temperament is linked to health and adjustment either indirectly by evoking parenting responses or through interactions with parenting behaviors that may either buffer the negative defects or increase the risk for poor outcome. Toward this goal infant/toddler temperament and parenting will be assessed throughout the first l8 months of life using multiple methods including diaries, laboratory visit" telephone surveys and parent reports. Rapid weight gain in infancy and toddler weight are the proposed outcomes. Identifying modifiable factors present early in a child's life will contribute to more successful interventions aimed at reducing childhood and adult obesity.

童年时期的肥胖症正在以惊人的速度增加。对于2-5岁的儿童，超重儿童的患病率在过去30年中几乎增加了两倍，从5％到13.9％，肥胖是一种多因素状况，其原因有各种原因，包括遗传，社会，文化和行为因素，所有这些因素都可能相互作用。本提案的目的是检查许多这些因素及其在幼儿期在婴儿期和超重中的快速体重增加中的作用。我们建议研究基于遗传的儿童特征与早期父母喂养实践之间的相互作用，这是儿童肥胖的危险因素。更具体地说，使用食物来缓解婴儿痛苦的父母喂养实践明确与紧迫性的气质特征相互作用，紧迫性的特征是以敏感的奖励系统来增加儿童肥胖的风险。该假设以拟议研究的中心原则为指导。这种气质与健康和调整有关，可以通过唤起育儿反应或与育儿行为的互动来间接地联系起来，而育儿行为可能可以缓解负面缺陷或增加结果不良的风险。朝着这个目标朝着婴儿/幼儿的气质和养育子女的发展，将在整个L8个月的生命中评估多种方法，包括日记，实验室访问“电话调查和家长报告”。婴儿期和幼儿的体重的快速增长是拟议中的结果。确定儿童生命早期的可修改因素将有助于更成功的干预措施，以促进更高的干预措施和成人儿童的目标。