The relationships between resilience and child health behaviors in a national dataset.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Resilience mechanisms at the individual, family, and environmental levels may improve health outcomes despite potentially harmful stress exposure partly through the practice of positive health behaviors.

Methods

We performed a secondary analysis of 2016-2021 National Survey of Children's Health data to assess the relationships between three resilience domains - child, family, neighborhood - and six health behaviors using multiple regression models adjusted for the other resilience domain(s) and potential confounders.

Results

Analysis revealed significant associations between each resilience domain and multiple health behaviors in a total weighted analytic sample of 70,156,540 children. For each outcome, the odds of better health behaviors were highest with

SUBMITTER: McMahon EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12039962 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature