Parental Working Hours and Children’s Sedentary Time: A Cross-sectional Analysis of the J-SHINE

Background: Sedentary behaviors are prevalent among children and can have a detrimental effect on their health. Little is known about the influence of parental time on children’s sedentary behavior. This study examined the association between parental working hours and children’s sedentary time.Meth...

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Published in:Journal of Epidemiology 2022/01/05, Vol.32(1), pp.4-11
Main Authors: Hatakeyama, Naoko, Kamada, Masamitsu, Kondo, Naoki
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
adolescents
Children
Cross-sectional studies
determinants
Multiple regression analysis
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Screen time
Sedentary behavior
sitting time
Statistical analysis
Working hours
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Summary:Background: Sedentary behaviors are prevalent among children and can have a detrimental effect on their health. Little is known about the influence of parental time on children’s sedentary behavior. This study examined the association between parental working hours and children’s sedentary time.Methods: Cross-sectional data were drawn from the Japanese Study on Stratification, Health, Income, and Neighborhood (J-SHINE) in 2010 and 2011. Participants were 886 children aged 7–18 years and their parents. The primary outcome was self-reported sedentary time after school that comprised screen time and non-screen time. The main explanatory variable was parental working hours. We used multiple regression analysis adjusting for sociodemographic factors.Results: Children’s mean sedentary time was 222 (standard deviation [SD], 123) min/day; 144 (SD, 108) min/day screen time and 78 (SD, 65) min/day non-screen time. Children whose mothers worked ≥20 hours/week had 28 (95% CI, 9 to 48) min/day longer sedentary time than children of homemakers (240 min/day vs 214 min/day). The longer maternal working hours, the longer sedentary time (P for trend
ISSN:0917-5040
1349-9092
DOI:10.2188/jea.JE20200170