Psychosocial factors and the development of childhood overweight and obesity: a UK cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We examined the role of psychosocial factors in overweight and obesity development.

Methods

UK Millennium Cohort Study data of children with normal weight at baseline were analysed. Weight changes were determined from baselines at ages 11 (n = 7979) and 14 (n = 6906) to follow-up at age 17. Baseline individual psychosocial factors were combined into two distinct indexes (caregiver-reported child mental health, child-reported psychosocial well-being). Regression models examined the associations between baseline indexes and individual psychosocial factors and overweight and obesity development (vs. no development) and body mass index (BMI) z-score changes.

Results

Worse child mental health, but not psychosocial well-being, at age 11 was associated with overwe

SUBMITTER: Putra IGNE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12811144 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature