The effect of pet dog ownership on empirical measures of child activity

养宠物狗对儿童活动实证测量的影响

• 批准号: 9789900
• 负责人: Nathaniel J. Hall
• 金额: $ 7万
• 依托单位: TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-21 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9789900
• 关键词: Accelerometer; Adult; Age; Canis familiaris; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Child; Childhood; Chronic Disease; Data; Emotional Bonds; Future; Goals; Habits; Home environment; Individual; Intervention; Light; Measures; Motivation; Obesity; Outcome; Overweight; Ownership; Patient Self-Report; Physical activity; Play; Population; Prevention; Preventive Intervention; Public Health; Recommendation; Research; Risk; Role; Salmon; Self Efficacy; Social support; Strenuous Exercise; Testing; Time; United States; Walking; Weight maintenance regimen; Work; aged; base; causal model; critical developmental period; innovation; moderate-to-vigorous physical activity; novel; obesity in children; pet animal; preadolescence; primary outcome; protective factors; sedentary lifestyle

Project Summary Weight management and sedentary lifestyles are of growing concern for public health in the United States with nearly 32% of children ages 2-19 classified as either overweight or obese. Further, over 70% of children fail to meet recommendations for moderate to vigorous physical activity. Walking and playing with pet dogs, however, may be a protective factor against sedentary lifestyles by encouraging walking and other physical activity. Pet dogs may be particularly important in increasing physical activity given that 51% of homes with children have pet dogs. Our long-term goal is to evaluate a causal model of canines influencing children’s physical activity and evaluate intervention and prevention efforts to increase physical activity in children. Our objective here, is to use objective accelerometer measures of physical activity to evaluate the effect of pet dogs on children’s overall physical activity (PA) and moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA). Using continuously worn accelerometers on children with and without dogs we will evaluate whether pet owners engage in more PA. One innovation of the proposed study is to use an accelerometer on the dog, allowing for periods of synchronized activity, such as walking the dog or playing with the dog, to be objectively quantified with a novel measure of Dog Associated PA. The specific aims of this project are to (1) determine whether a pet dog in the home is associated with physical activity in children (compared to children without a pet dog), (2) identify the amount of physical activity a child engages in that is directly related to the dog (Dog Associated PA), and (3) evaluate the association between child attachment to their pet dog and Dog Associated PA. The outcomes of this project will evaluate the potential of pets to increase physical activity in children and develop needed objective measures for studies evaluating canines’ impacts on owners’ physical activity.

项目摘要 体重管理和久坐不动的生活方式越来越受到公众健康的关注， 在美国，近32%的2-19岁儿童被归类为超重或肥胖。 肥胖此外，超过70%的儿童未能达到中度至剧烈运动的建议。 体力活动。然而，与宠物狗一起散步和玩耍可能是一个保护因素 通过鼓励散步和其他体育活动来反对久坐不动的生活方式。宠物狗可能是 特别重要的是，鉴于51%的有孩子的家庭 宠物狗我们的长期目标是评估犬科动物影响儿童行为的因果模型。 身体活动和评估干预和预防工作，以增加身体活动， 孩子我们的目标是使用客观的加速计测量身体活动， 评估宠物狗对儿童整体身体活动（PA）的影响， 积极的体力活动（MVPA）。使用连续佩戴的加速度计对患有和 如果没有狗，我们将评估宠物主人是否参与更多的PA。一个创新的 建议的研究是在狗身上使用加速度计，允许同步的时间段 活动，如遛狗或与狗玩耍，要客观量化与一个新的 与狗相关的PA。本项目的具体目标是：（1）确定 家中的宠物狗与儿童的身体活动有关（与没有宠物狗的儿童相比）。 宠物狗），（2）确定儿童从事的直接相关的体力活动量 与狗相关的PA（Dog Associated PA），以及（3）评估儿童依恋与 他们的宠物狗和狗相关的PA。该项目的成果将评估以下方面的潜力： 宠物增加儿童的身体活动，并制定研究所需的客观措施 评估犬对主人身体活动的影响。