Before-school and after-school childcare and children's risk of obesity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the USA, half of children are regularly cared for before or after school by someone other than a parent.

Objective

Describe the relationship between childcare arrangements and obesity among school-aged children.

Methods

Data are from the fifth-grade wave of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Kindergarten Cohort 1998-1999, a nationally representative study of US children who were in kindergarten in 1998-1999 or first grade in 1999, collected in spring 2004 (analytic sample = 9617). We estimated survey-adjusted logistic regression models to examine the association between childcare arrangements before and after school and obesity.

Results

The prevalence of obesity was highest among fifth graders who received care from multiple sources and lowe

SUBMITTER: Shah PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4980278 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature