Measuring Parenting: Current Status and Consensus Reports

描述（由申请人提供）：肥胖是一个主要的营养问题，在儿童中，几乎全世界。能量平衡模型表明，肥胖是过度消耗卡路里，低水平的身体活动和高水平的久坐行为的结果，主要是高屏幕时间（电视，视频和视频游戏）。父母对孩子发展这些健康相关行为至关重要。父母教养是影响儿童行为的社会微环境。世界各地都进行了广泛的育儿研究，但有时发现相互矛盾。阻碍这项研究取得进展的一个问题是，养育措施的多样性，一些措施相似，一些非常不同的结构，没有一套共同的共识确定的优先事项。本次会议的目的是通过推进关于主要能量平衡行为（饮食，体育活动，久坐（屏幕媒体）行为）的一般养育方式和具体养育实践的理论和心理测量学措施，为预防儿童肥胖做出贡献。本次会议将在得克萨斯州休斯敦贝勒医学院儿科系儿童营养研究中心举行。这将是第11届国际行为营养和身体活动学会年会的会前会议（这将吸引国际社会参加我们的会前会议），将于2012年5月20日至22日举行。本次会前会议直接解决了儿童肥胖预防的NIH优先事项，通过解决养育对能量平衡的三大贡献（饮食，体育活动，久坐行为）。会前会议将通过加强措施对研究产生直接影响。加强对育儿理论和测量的关注将通过描绘影响的途径而产生长期效益，从而为干预和理解教育提供指导。我们设计了会议，以建立会后工作组，采取下一步措施，制定和验证可以在多元文化和国际上使用的共识最先进的措施。

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.