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Adolescent risk behaviours and mealtime routines : does family meal frequency alter the association between family structure and risk behaviour?

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Levin, Kate A., Kirby, Joanna and Currie, Christine S. M. (2011) Adolescent risk behaviours and mealtime routines : does family meal frequency alter the association between family structure and risk behaviour? Health Education Research, 27 (1). pp. 24-35. doi:10.1093/her/cyr084

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/her/cyr084

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Abstract

Family structure is associated with a range of adolescent risk behaviours, with those living in both parent families generally faring best. This study describes the association between family structure and adolescent risk behaviours and assesses the role of the family meal. Data from the 2006 Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children survey were modelled using Multilevel Binomial modelling for six risk behaviour outcomes. Significantly more children from ‘both parent’ families ate a family meal every day and fewer ‘hardly ever or never’ did. Family structure was associated with boys’ and girls’ smoking, drinking, cannabis use and having sex and with girls’ fighting. Frequency of eating a family meal was associated with a reduced likelihood of all risk behaviours among girls and all but fighting and having sex among boys. Eating a family meal regularly nullified the association between family structure and drinking alcohol for boys and girls and cannabis use for boys and reduced the effect size of alternative family structures on boys having sex and smoking. The family meal, associated with a reduced likelihood of many adolescent risk behaviours, reduces or eliminates the association with family structure and may therefore help to overcome inequalities in adolescent risk behaviours.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics
Divisions: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Statistics and Epidemiology
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence
Journal or Publication Title: Health Education Research
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISSN: 0268-1153
Official Date: 2011
Dates:
DateEvent
2011Published
7 September 2011Available
Volume: 27
Number: 1
Number of Pages: 12
Page Range: pp. 24-35
DOI: 10.1093/her/cyr084
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Funder: National Health Service in Scotland

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