Socioeconomic disparities in physical activity, sedentary behavior and sleep patterns among 6- to 9-year-old children from 24 countries in the WHO European region
Language English Country England, Great Britain Media print-electronic
Document type Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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World Health Organization - International
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34235843
DOI
10.1111/obr.13209
Knihovny.cz E-resources
- Keywords
- physical activity, sedentary behavior, sleep hygiene, social inequalities,
- MeSH
- Child Behavior MeSH
- Exercise MeSH
- Child MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Pediatric Obesity * epidemiology MeSH
- Cross-Sectional Studies MeSH
- Sedentary Behavior * MeSH
- Socioeconomic Factors MeSH
- Sleep MeSH
- Social Class MeSH
- World Health Organization MeSH
- Check Tag
- Child MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't MeSH
Physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep are important predictors of children's health. This paper aimed to investigate socioeconomic disparities in physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep across the WHO European region. This cross-sectional study used data on 124,700 children aged 6 to 9 years from 24 countries participating in the WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative between 2015 and 2017. Socioeconomic status (SES) was measured through parental education, parental employment status, and family perceived wealth. Overall, results showed different patterns in socioeconomic disparities in children's movement behaviors across countries. In general, high SES children were more likely to use motorized transportation. Low SES children were less likely to participate in sports clubs and more likely to have more than 2 h/day of screen time. Children with low parental education had a 2.24 [95% CI 1.94-2.58] times higher risk of practising sports for less than 2 h/week. In the pooled analysis, SES was not significantly related to active play. The relationship between SES and sleep varied by the SES indicator used. Importantly, results showed that low SES is not always associated with a higher prevalence of "less healthy" behaviors. There is a great diversity in SES patterns across countries which supports the need for country-specific, targeted public health interventions.
Center for Health Ecology Institute of Public Health Podgorica Montenegro
College of Health and Agricultural Sciences University College Dublin Dublin Ireland
Croatian Institute of Public Health Zagreb Croatia
Department Food and Nutrition National Centre of Public Health and Analyses Sofia Bulgaria
Department of Cardiology Institute of Mother and Child Warsaw Poland
Department of Living Conditions and Lifestyle Public Health Agency of Sweden Solna Sweden
Department of Nutrition Research National Institute for Health Development Tallinn Estonia
Department of Pediatrics Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg Austria
Department of Preventive Medicine Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kaunas Lithuania
Department of Research and Health Statistics Centre for Disease and Prevention Control Riga Latvia
Department of Social and Policy Sciences University of Bath Bath UK
Faculty of Medicine Hacettepe University Ankara Turkey
Faculty of Medicine Ss Cyril and Methodius University Skopje North Macedonia
Health Authority Ministry of Health San Marino San Marino
Health Promotion and Inequality Danish Health Authority Copenhagen Denmark
Institute of Public Health Skopje North Macedonia
Kazakhstan School of Public Health Kazakhstan's Medical University Almaty Kazakhstan
Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology BIPS Bremen Germany
National Institute of Public Health University of Southern Denmark Odense Denmark
Nutrition and Food Safety Sector Institute of Public Health Tirana Albania
Nutritional Surveillance and Epidemiology Team University Sorbonne Paris Nord Bobigny France
Obesity Management Centre Institute of Endocrinology Prague Czech Republic
Primary Child Health Unit Primary Health Care Floriana Malta
Public Health and Welfare Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare Helsinki Finland
School of Medicine University of Zagreb Zagreb Croatia
Scientific Research Institute of Maternal and Child Health Ashgabat Turkmenistan
Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition Ministry of Consumer Affairs Madrid Spain
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