Measuring Parenting: Current Status and Consensus Reports

描述(申请人提供)：肥胖是儿童中的一个主要营养问题，几乎在全世界范围内。能量平衡模型表明，肥胖是过度消耗卡路里、低水平的体力活动和高水平的久坐行为(主要是长时间看电视、看视频和玩电子游戏)的结果。父母对孩子养成这些与健康有关的行为至关重要。父母教养方式是社会微环境对儿童行为的影响。世界各地都进行了广泛的育儿研究，但有时会得出相互矛盾的结论。阻碍这项研究进展的一个问题是父母养育措施的多样性，一些衡量相似的结构，一些非常不同的结构，没有一套共同的共识确定的优先项目。本次会议的目的是通过提出关于主要能量平衡行为(饮食、体力活动、久坐(屏幕媒体)行为)的一般父母方式和具体父母做法的测量的理论和心理测量学，为预防儿童肥胖做出贡献。本次大会将在德克萨斯州休斯顿市贝勒医学院儿科的儿童营养研究中心举行。这将是国际行为营养和体力活动协会第11届年会的会前会议(我们的会前会议应该会吸引国际与会者)，会议将于2012年5月20-22日举行。这次预会议直接讨论了NIH预防儿童肥胖的优先事项，解决了父母对能量平衡的三大贡献(饮食、体力活动、久坐行为)的问题。会议前的会议将通过加强措施对研究产生立竿见影的影响。加强对育儿理论和衡量标准的关注，将通过描绘影响的途径，从而为干预提供指导，并为教育提供理解，从而产生长期好处。我们设计了这次会议，以建立会议后工作组，以采取下一步行动，制定和验证可在多文化和国际上使用的协商一致的最新措施。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Obesity is a dominant nutritional problem among children, virtually worldwide. The energy balance model indicates obesity is the result of overconsumption of calories, low levels of physical activity, and high levels of sedentary behavior, mostly high screen time (TV, videos, and videogames). Parents are critical to developing these health related behaviors in children. Parenting is a social micro-environmental influence on child behavior. Extensive parenting research has been conducted around the world, but sometimes with conflicting findings. An issue inhibiting progress in this research is th board diversity of parenting measures, some measuring similar and some very different constructs, with no common set of consensually identified priority items. The objective of this conference is to contribute to the prevention of obesity among children, by advancing the theory and psychometrics of measures of general parenting styles and specific parenting practices in regard to the major energy balance behaviors (diet, physical activity, sedentary (screen media) behaviors). This conference will be held in the Children's Nutrition Research Center in the Department of Pediatrics of the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. This will be a pre-conference to the 11th annual meeting to the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (which should attract international attendance at our preconference meeting), and will be held May 20-22, 2012. This pre-conference directly addresses the NIH priority of Childhood Obesity Prevention by addressing parenting in regard to the three major contributions to energy balance (diet, physical activity, sedentary behaviors). The pre-conference will have an immediate influence on research by leading to enhanced measures. Enhanced attention to theory and measurement of parenting will have long term benefits by delineating pathways of effects, thereby, providing guidance for interventions and understanding for education. We have designed the conference to establish post conference working groups to take the next steps in developing and validating consensus state of the art measures that can be used multiculturally and internationally.