Obesity risk knowledge and physical activity in families of adolescents.
Health risk knowledge has been identified as a key to making informed decisions regarding healthy lifestyle choices (J. Swift, C. Glazebrook, & I. Macdonald, 2005). This article describes a descriptive, correlation study conducted with adolescents and their parents to examine the relationship between obesity risk knowledge and physical activity levels in families of adolescents. A statistically significant inverse relationship is found between parental physical activities and the activity levels of adolescents (r = -.23, p<.05). Although a relationship between physical activity and obesity risk knowledge in parents is supported, the phenomenon is not found in adolescent participants.
Department of Nursing, California State University, Fullerton, CA, USA. emrutkowski@cox.net
Elaine M
EM
Rutkowski
Cynthia D
CD
Connelly
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002140:California; D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D009043:Motor Activity; D009765:Obesity / Q000523:psychology*; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012307:Risk Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires