PURPOSE: Review individual, family, and environmental factors that predict health-risk behavior among children and to propose parent-child communication processes as a mechanism to mediate them. CONCLUSIONS: Improving parent-child communication processes may: reduce individual risk factors, such as poor academic achievement or self-esteem; modify parenting practices such as providing regulation and structure and acting as models of health behavior; and facilitate discussion about factors that lead to involvement in health-risk behaviors. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: Assessment strategies to identify youth at risk for health-risk behavior are recommended and community-based strategies to improve communication among parents and children need development.
PURPOSE: Review individual, family, and environmental factors that predict health-risk behavior among children and to propose parent-child communication processes as a mechanism to mediate them. CONCLUSIONS: Improving parent-child communication processes may: reduce individual risk factors, such as poor academic achievement or self-esteem; modify parenting practices such as providing regulation and structure and acting as models of health behavior; and facilitate discussion about factors that lead to involvement in health-risk behaviors. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: Assessment strategies to identify youth at risk for health-risk behavior are recommended and community-based strategies to improve communication among parents and children need development.
Authors: Yang Gao; Li Ping Li; Jean Hee Kim; Nathan Congdon; Joseph Lau; Sian Griffiths Journal: BMC Public Health Date: 2010-02-03 Impact factor: 3.295
Authors: Shivani Rikhy; Suzanne Tough; Barry Trute; Karen Benzies; Heather Kehler; David W Johnston Journal: BMC Public Health Date: 2010-04-08 Impact factor: 3.295
Authors: Susan K Riesch; Karen Kedrowski; Roger L Brown; Barbara Myers Temkin; Kevin Wang; Jeffrey Henriques; Gloria Jacobson; Nina Giustino-Kluba Journal: Int J Nurs Stud Date: 2012-11-21 Impact factor: 5.837