Like Mother, like Son: Physical Activity, Commuting, and Associated Demographic Factors

Caroline Brand; Cezane Reuter; Arieli Dias; Jorge Mota; Michael Duncan; Anelise Reis Gaya; Luiza Reis; Jane Dagmar Pollo Renner; Emilio Villa-Gonzalez

doi:10.3390/su12145631

Like Mother, like Son: Physical Activity, Commuting, and Associated Demographic Factors

Caroline Brand
, Cezane Reuter
, Arieli Dias
, Jorge Mota
, Michael Duncan
, Anelise Reis Gaya
, Luiza Reis
, Jane Dagmar Pollo Renner
, Emilio Villa-Gonzalez

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sol
University of Granada
University of Porto
University of Santa Cruz do Sul

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Abstract

A mother’s healthy conduct may lead to the healthy conduct of their children. Thus, this study aimed to verify the role of demographic factors in the relationship between mothers’ physical activity (PA) and commuting to work with children and adolescent’s PA and commuting to school. This cross-sectional study comprised 1421 children and adolescents aged 6 to 17 years and 1421 mothers, from Brazil. PA, commuting, socioeconomic status (SES), skin color/ethnicity, and living area were evaluated by questionnaire. Logistic binary regression models were used. Results indicated that mothers’ PA and commuting were associated with children and adolescent’s PA and commuting to school in crude and adjusted models. Considering the role of the demographic factors, an association was only observed for girls in the relationship between mother’s PA with children’s PA. In adolescents, an association was observed in both high/low SES, boys/girls, and rural/urban areas. Regarding children and adolescent active commuting to school, there was an association with mothers commuting. All demographic factors were strongly associated, except for rural areas. Therefore, mothers’ PA as well as commuting to work are associated with children and adolescent’s PA and commuting to school. Sex, living area, and SES are the related demographic factors

Original language	English
Article number	5631
Journal	Sustainability
Volume	12
Issue number	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/su12145631
Publication status	Published - 13 Jul 2020

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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) and Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal (SFRH/BSAB/142983/2018 and UID/DTP/00617/201

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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

Parent-child relations
Socioeconomic factors
Transportation

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Geography, Planning and Development
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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