TY - JOUR
T1 - Sex differences in growth in body mass and psychosocial abilities in children in Head Start
AU - Miccoli, Antonela
AU - Toussaint, Loren L.
AU - Smith, Latasha M.
AU - Hansen, Carina K.
AU - Lynch, Brian A.
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Northeast Iowa Food and Fitness Core Partners and Luther College Center for Sustainable Communities for their financial support of the FFI initiative. Our study activities were co-funded by the Center for Clinical and Translational Science Mayo Clinic (CTSA) and the Mayo Clinic Children’s Research Center. This study was supported by CTSA [grant number UL1 TR002377] from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH. The Human Ethics Approval number is 2019_14. The de-identified data is available on request. We would also like to thank Northeast Iowa Community Action Head Start staff, including Sharon Burke and Jada Bahls-Kargalskiy, for their collaboration and support of the project. Special thanks to Ann R. Mansfield and Haleisa Johnson from Northeast Iowa Food and Fitness Initiative for their role in study coordination for this project.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Early childhood is a critical period to intervene for obesity, developmental and behavioural problems. Data from 1065 children in 14 Northeast Iowa Community Action Head Starts (HS) were collected between 2011 and 2018. Body mass index (BMI) and developmental scores were assessed at the beginning of each school year and compared after the first year in HS. Females showed a 3.5% decrease in BMI percentile (F = 2.46, P =.12, (Formula presented.) =.02), while males increased theirs by 4.4% (F = 7.41, P =.007, (Formula presented.) =.05). Females showed higher initial passing rates than males on the Brigance (85.9% vs 75.7%, p =.006), self-help (64.7% vs 49.1%, p =.001), but not socio-emotional outcomes. Females in HS showed a slight decrease in BMI, compared to a significant increase in males. Improvements in developmental and behavioural outcomes were similar for both. Further research should determine why such differences occurred.
AB - Early childhood is a critical period to intervene for obesity, developmental and behavioural problems. Data from 1065 children in 14 Northeast Iowa Community Action Head Starts (HS) were collected between 2011 and 2018. Body mass index (BMI) and developmental scores were assessed at the beginning of each school year and compared after the first year in HS. Females showed a 3.5% decrease in BMI percentile (F = 2.46, P =.12, (Formula presented.) =.02), while males increased theirs by 4.4% (F = 7.41, P =.007, (Formula presented.) =.05). Females showed higher initial passing rates than males on the Brigance (85.9% vs 75.7%, p =.006), self-help (64.7% vs 49.1%, p =.001), but not socio-emotional outcomes. Females in HS showed a slight decrease in BMI, compared to a significant increase in males. Improvements in developmental and behavioural outcomes were similar for both. Further research should determine why such differences occurred.
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U2 - 10.1080/03004430.2022.2044322
DO - 10.1080/03004430.2022.2044322
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85126471380
SN - 0300-4430
VL - 192
SP - 2646
EP - 2655
JO - Early Child Development and Care
JF - Early Child Development and Care
IS - 16
ER -