BACKGROUND There are large socioeconomic disparities in food behaviours. The objective of the present study is to longitudinally explore socioeconomic disparities in adolescents' fruit and vegetable (FV) intake and to assess mediators of the disparity. METHODS A longitudinal study containing 896 adolescents from 20 randomly selected elementary schools within two Norwegian counties (response r...

PURPOSE The purpose of the study was to examine the association between income inequality and school violence and between the performance inequality and school violence in two international samples. METHODS The study used data from Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study 2011 and from the Central Intelligence Agency of United States which combined information about academic perf...

The present study used structural equation modeling to examine the potential mediating effect of family conflict on caregiver strain in a randomly drawn household sample of 650 adults with primary care responsibility for an adult age 50 or older with a mental disability. Caregiver strain was directly influenced by the conflict, disagreements, and hardships experienced by the caregiver’s family....

BACKGROUND Overweight and obesity are steadily increasing worldwide with the greatest prevalence occurring in high-income countries. Many factors influence body mass index (BMI); however multiple influences assessed in families and individuals are rarely studied together in a prospective design. Our objective was to model the impact of multiple influences at the child (low birth weight, history...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the prevalence of obesity, overweight, abdominal obesity and high blood pressure in a sample of adolescents from a low-income city in Brazil and to estimate the relationship with the socioeconomic status of the family, the education level of the family provider and the type of school. METHODS This cross-sectional study randomly sampled 1,014 adolescents (54.8% girls), b...

"Family time" is reflected in the process of building and fortifying family relationships. Whereas such time, free of obligatory work, school, and family maintenance activities, is purchased by many families using discretionary income, we explore how low-income mothers make time for and give meaning to focused engagement and relationship development with their children within time constraints i...

BACKGROUND Neighbourhood income level is associated with the incidence of stroke and stroke-related mortality. It has also been linked to receipt of appropriate services, post discharge motor recovery and functional status following a stroke. We examined the impact of neighbourhood income on participation among community-dwelling stroke survivors during the two years following the stroke. MET...

Although it is generally agreed that a child whose parents live apart should have the same proportion of parental income he or she would have if the parents lived together, what that proportion is remains in doubt. The guidelines issued by the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement rest on the contention that as income rises, the percentage of family income spent for a child decreases. The...

fish is one of the healthy foods and a rich source of animal protein average household consumption of fish in our soceity is such a low in that one can rarly find it in a family food basket. therefore, this study aimed at analyzing the factors affecting consumption of fish among tabrizian households. to do this, a total of 224 questionnaires was conducted using clustered two- stage sampling met...