OBJECTIVE: To compare environmental factors that influence body mass index for age (BMI-for-age) between a sample of American and Czech school-aged children. DESIGN: Pilot study. A parent questionnaire and school visits were used to collect data from parents and children. SETTING: Public schools in 1 American and 2 Czech cities. PARTICIPANTS: Forty-five American and 97 Czech 4(th)- through 6(th)-graders and their parents. VARIABLES MEASURED: Parenting style, food socialization and preparation practices, healthful food availability, and children’s BMI-for-age were measured. ANALYSIS: Factors from the parental scales were derived using factor analysis. Independent t tests compared environmental factors between American and Czech families. A regression model was used to identify environmental variables associated with BMI-for-age. RESULTS: American parents used authoritative parenting style and positive food socialization practices more often than Czech parents (P <.001). Availability of healthful food and parental involvement in food preparation were higher (P <.001) in Czech households. Positive encouraging socialization practices, less frequent use of negative explanations, and a greater availability of vegetables were associated with lower BMI-for-age in the Czech sample of children. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: A future study should focus on identifying environmental factors that influence children's BMI-for-age with a large sample of Czech and American parents and their school-aged children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","mots_cles":[],"class_list":["post-43711","resume","type-resume","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"adresse":"Department of Nutritional Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078, USA. lenka.humenikova@okstate.edu","annee":"2008","mois":"8","numero":"40:4","page":"251-7","auteurs":[{"ID":43709,"post_author":"0","post_date":"2018-12-04 03:11:20","post_date_gmt":"2018-12-04 02:11:20","post_content":"","post_title":"Humenikova","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"humenikova","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-12-04 03:11:20","post_modified_gmt":"2018-12-04 02:11:20","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/aprifel-pp.mentalworks.biz\/fr\/auteur\/humenikova\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"auteur_resume","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":43710,"post_author":"0","post_date":"2018-12-04 03:11:21","post_date_gmt":"2018-12-04 02:11:21","post_content":"","post_title":"Gates","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gates","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-12-04 03:11:21","post_modified_gmt":"2018-12-04 02:11:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/aprifel-pp.mentalworks.biz\/fr\/auteur\/gates\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"auteur_resume","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"sources":[{"ID":28209,"post_author":"0","post_date":"2018-12-03 23:03:48","post_date_gmt":"2018-12-03 22:03:48","post_content":"","post_title":"J NUTR EDUC BEHAV","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"j-nutr-educ-behav-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-12-03 23:03:48","post_modified_gmt":"2018-12-03 22:03:48","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/aprifel-pp.mentalworks.biz\/fr\/source\/j-nutr-educ-behav-2\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"source","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},"yoast_head":"\n