Screen time during the preschool years is detrimental to wellbeing. The impact of parental perceptions on preschoolers' screen time is unknown. This paper explores the association between maternal perceptions of the impact of screen time on their preschoolers' wellbeing with their child's screen time and the potential mediating role of their perception of the appropriate amount of screen time. ...

We examined the relationships between parent-adolescent discrepancies in perceived parenting characteristics (indexed by parental responsiveness, parental demandingness, and parental control) and adolescent developmental outcomes (indexed by achievement motivation and psychological competence) in poor families in Hong Kong. A sample of 275 intact families having at least one child aged 11-16 ex...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to examine both GPS-determined and self-reported walking, cycling and passive transport in leisure time during week- and weekend-days among 10 to 12-year old children. Comparisons between GPS-determined and self-reported transport in leisure time were investigated. Second, associations between parental perceptions of the neighborhood environment and GPS-determined wa...

BACKGROUND Overweight and low levels of physical activity (PA) in preschoolers are major public health concerns. However, to date only few studies have investigated subjective and objective correlates of PA across different socioecological domains in preschoolers. We therefore simultaneously investigate associations between preschoolers' objectively measured leisure-time PA and a comprehensive ...

The aim was to determine the differences in parents' perceptions of boys' and girls' body shapes and the explanations for the emphasis on body shape care of children. Subjects were low-income parents (n = 158) of preschoolers attending preschools in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Parental perceptions of children's body shapes were assessed based on their rankings (scale of 1 to 7) of four attributes (...

Australia’s status as one of the few countries in the world without a universal paid maternity leave scheme contrasts somewhat with its relatively comprehensive model of unpaid parental leave. As yet, however, there has been little analysis of the way this unpaid leave has been utilized, or the perceptions of working parents about its accessibility and value. This paper offers a preliminary inv...

quality assurance compliance, employee awareness/education, and collaborative OR/SPS teamwork. The leadership of our facility supported a system redesign team to control one risk factor of SSI. The elimination of IUSS from our OR culture correlated with elimination of SSIs associated with IUSS for the past 3 years. The redesign team process promoted limitless thinking, and the intraprofessional...