What is the status of Omani parents on their children’s healthy lifestyle ?
Other Title(s)
ما هو موقف الأباء من أسلوب حياة أطفالهم الصحية ؟
Joint Authors
al-Kilani, Hashim Adnan
al-Qaryuti, Ibrahim Amin
Source
Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies
Issue
Vol. 10, Issue 4 (31 Oct. 2016), pp.750-757, 8 p.
Publisher
Sultan Qaboos University College of Education
Publication Date
2016-10-31
Country of Publication
Oman
No. of Pages
8
Main Subjects
Social Sciences (Multidisciplinary)
Public Health
Topics
Abstract EN
The purpose of this study was to document the significance of the practices employed by parents that contribute to children’s healthy lifestyle in Oman.
Those practices encompassed the physical activity and inactivity, sedentary behaviour, nutritional knowledge, and its reflection on their children at early childhood class.
Subjects consisted of 237 male and female parents of kindergarten children in the Sultanate of Oman.
The researchers developed a twenty-three and a twenty-item questionnaire intended to measure the degree of parent involvement in their children's impact at acceptable levels of validity and reliability.
(Amazingly, it was found that parents’ healthy lifestyle were low in their habit practices (low in engagement to physical activity, sports and daily life activity) which showed a trend of sedentary lifestyle.
Meanwhile, they did not encourage their children to participate in physical activity nor control them from staying away from being in front of TV screen and video games, too.
In addition, their nutritional knowledge also scored low which affected their children’s health negatively.
It is, therefore, suggested that lifestyle concept should be inculcated in the learning process for children, and further analysis be made as to what extent the demographic category may influence parents’ involvement towards their children’s healthy lifestyle.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Kilani, Hashim Adnan& al-Qaryuti, Ibrahim Amin. 2016. What is the status of Omani parents on their children’s healthy lifestyle ?. Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies،Vol. 10, no. 4, pp.750-757.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-720906
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Kilani, Hashim Adnan& al-Qaryuti, Ibrahim Amin. What is the status of Omani parents on their children’s healthy lifestyle ?. Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies Vol. 10, no. 4 (Oct. 2016), pp.750-757.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-720906
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Kilani, Hashim Adnan& al-Qaryuti, Ibrahim Amin. What is the status of Omani parents on their children’s healthy lifestyle ?. Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies. 2016. Vol. 10, no. 4, pp.750-757.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-720906
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 756-757
Record ID
BIM-720906