%0 Journal Article
%T Does Caregiver¡¯s Social Bonding Enhance the Health of their Children?:The Association between Social Capital and Child Behaviors
%A Fujiwara
%A Takeo
%A Takao
%A Soshi
%A Iwase
%A Toshihide
%A Hamada
%A Jun
%J Acta Medica Okayama
%D 2012
%I Okayama University Medical School
%X Little is known about the association between social capital and child behaviors. This study aims to investigate that association. A complete population-based, cross-sectional survey was conducted for all the caregivers with preschool children in a rural town in Okayama prefecture in Japan. Two dimensions of individual-level social capital and unhealthy child behaviors were reported by parent-administered questionnaire. We analyzed 354 preschool children (57.6% of all children for whom questionnaires were completed). Children whose main caregiver had high cognitive social capital were 89% less likely to miss breakfast (odds ratio [OR]£½0.11;95% confidence interval [CI]:0.01-1.03). Children whose caregiver had high structural social capital were 71% less likely to wake up late (OR£½0.29;95% CI:0.12-0.71) and 78% less likely to skip tooth brushing more than once per day (OR£½0.22;95% CI:0.05-0.93). Both cognitive and structural social capital were negatively associated with unhealthy child behaviors. A further intervention study is needed to confirm the impact of social capital on child behavior.
%K tooth brushing
%K child health
%K social capital
%K skipping breakfast
%K watching TV
%U http://ousar.lib.okayama-u.ac.jp/file/48689/66_4_343.pdf