Parental Sociodemographic Characteristics, Parental Concerns, and Children’s Physical Activity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Physical activity (PA) is key to children's health, but nearly half of Canadian children do not meet the recommended levels, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Identifying correlates and mechanisms influencing PA can inform public health policies and interventions, especially during health crises. This thesis examined the relationships between parental sociodemographic characteristics, parental concerns, and children's PA, and to determine if parental concerns mediated the relationship between parental sociodemographic characteristics and children's PA during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: The study utilized the 2020 Statistics Canada survey, Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians - Parenting during the Pandemic, proxy-reported data from 5863 parents of children aged 6-14 years. Multiple logistic regression, Spearman correlations, and mediation analyses were conducted to address the objectives. RESULTS: Of 5863 parents 91.2% were women, 53.4% were working from home, 15.7% were working outside the home, and 30.9% were working both from home and outside the home during the pandemic. Three quarters (74.3%) of the parents had a university education, 91.9% were a non-visible minority, and 89.3% were born in Canada. Almost half (47.7%) of the parents reported concerns for the amount of PA among their children and 46.7% reported that their children engage in low moderate levels of PA. Parents without a university education (OR 1.38, 95% CI 1.18,1.62) and with high concerns for the amount of PA among their children (OR 3.91, 95% CI 3.44, 4.46) were associated with low to moderate PA among their children compared to their university educated and less concerned counterparts. Parental concerns for the amount of PA among their children partially mediated the relationship between parental visible minority status and children’s PA (47%) and the relationship between parental immigration status and children's PA (33%). CONCLUSIONS: Parents, particularly their concerns and education levels, may play an important role in shaping children’s PA. Also, parents and children from marginalized groups including visible minority and immigrants, may require more support and resources to increase their opportunities and access to PA participation. Future intervention strategies for PA promotion efforts should focus on children within these communities as we recover from the pandemic.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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