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Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 06-1999
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-1986
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 14-01-2011
DOI: 10.1111/J.1469-8749.2010.03848.X
Abstract: To examine the relationship between maternal mental health problems and the time required by mothers to care for children with cerebral palsy (CP). Cross-sectional study of 158 mothers of children with cerebral palsy (98 males, 60 females mean age 11y 3mo, range 6-17y). Gross Motor Function Classification System levels of the children were 37% level I, 20% level II, 9% level III, 12% level IV, and 22% level V. Manual Ability Classification System levels were 19% level I, 27% level II, 22% level III, 13% level IV, and 19% level V. Maternal mental health problems were assessed using the General Health Questionnaire. Depressive symptoms were assessed using the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale. A time-diary was used to measure caregiving time. Experience of time pressure was assessed using the Time Crunch Scale. On average, mothers spent 6.0 hours per 24 hours on weekdays and 8.3 hours per 24 hours on weekends caring for children with CP. There was a significant positive relationship between maternal psychological problems and both caregiving time required per 24 hours (p = 0.03) and mothers' experience of time pressure (p < 0.001). There was also a significant positive association between maternal depressive symptoms and experience of time pressure (p = 0.003). It is important to support mothers to find ways of reducing the real and perceived impact of caregiving. This might include identifying sources of 'respite' support for caregivers, training in stress and time management, and appropriate treatment of mental health problems.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-1993
DOI: 10.1007/BF01078721
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2010
DOI: 10.1016/J.SOCSCIMED.2010.01.040
Abstract: Alarm about the increasing prevalence of childhood obesity has focussed attention on in idual lifestyle behaviours that may contribute to unhealthy weight. More distal predictors such as maternal employment may also be implicated since working mothers have less time to supervise children's daily activities. The research reported here used two waves of data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children to investigate whether mothers' hours in paid work shape young children's television viewing, snacking and physical activity, and through those lifestyle behaviours, children's weight at ages 4-5 years and 6-7 years. At both ages, children's lifestyle behaviours were interrelated and associated with weight status. Cross-sectional analysis confirmed small, direct associations between longer hours of maternal employment and child weight at age 4-5 years, but not with child's weight measured two years later. In both the cross-sectional and prospective analyses, the children of mothers who worked part-time watched less television and were less likely to be overweight than children of mothers who were not employed or who worked full-time. While associations were small, they remained significant after adjustment for maternal weight, household income and other factors. The combination of direct and indirect relationships between mothers' work hours and the weight status of their young children provides additional support to calls for family-friendly work policies as an important means for promoting healthy family lifestyles and early childhood wellbeing.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2008
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-1988
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-10-2014
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 09-1998
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-1987
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 1989
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2002
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2008
Abstract: This article examines the widespread proposition that the mobile phone dissolves the boundaries that separate work and home, extending the reach of work. It analyses data derived from a purpose-designed survey to study social practices surrounding mobile phone use.The key components of the survey investigated here are a questionnaire and a log of phone calls retrieved from respondents' handsets. Rather than being primarily a tool of work extension, or even a tool that facilitates greater work-family balance, we show that the main purpose of mobile phone calls is to maintain continuing connections with family and friends. Our findings suggest that in iduals exert control over the extent to which calls invade their personal time, actively encouraging deeper contacts with intimates.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2007
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2015
DOI: 10.1016/J.SLEEP.2015.08.013
Abstract: Using national Australian time-diary data, we aimed to empirically determine sleep duration thresholds beyond which children have poorer health, learning, quality of life, and weight status and parents have poorer mental health. Cross-sectional data from the first three waves of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. A nationally representative s le of 4983 4-5-year-olds, recruited in 2004 from the Australian Medicare database and followed biennially 3631 had analyzable sleep information and a concurrent measure of health and well-being for at least one wave. At each wave, a parent completed 24-h time-use diaries for one randomly selected weekday and one weekend day, including a "sleeping/napping" category. Parent-reported child mental health, health-related quality of life, and maternal aternal mental health teacher-reported child language, literacy, mathematical thinking, and approach to learning and assessed child body mass index and girth. Linear regression analyses revealed weak, inconsistent relationships between sleep duration and outcomes at every wave. For ex le, children with versus without psychosocial health-related quality of life problems slept slightly less at 6-7 years (adjusted mean difference 0.12 h 95% confidence interval 0.01-0.22, p = 0.03), but not at 4-5 (0.00 -0.10 to 0.11, p = 1.0) or 8-9 years (0.09 -0.02 to 0.22, p = 0.1). Empirical exploration using fractional polynomials demonstrated no clear thresholds for sleep duration and any adverse outcome at any wave. Present guidelines in terms of children's short sleep duration appear misguided. Other parameters such as sleep timing may be more meaningful for understanding optimal child sleep.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2002
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1999
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-2005
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-01-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2015
Publisher: Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe
Date: 10-2005
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-08-2010
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 07-2003
DOI: 10.1086/378341
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-08-2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2006
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1728569
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2004
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-1993
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Date: 1993
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2007
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1728567
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2004
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-1991
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 1994
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2009
Abstract: Mobile phone services are now universally diffused, creating the possibility of perpetual contact, regardless of time and location. Many think the impossibility of being ‘out of touch’ leads to increased time pressure. In addition to claims that the mobile phone has led to harried leisure, others have argued that perpetual contact extends work into the home or intensifies work in other ways. In this article, these issues are explored using survey data employing some novel methodologies — combining a questionnaire with logs of phone traffic recovered from respondents’ handsets and a purpose-designed time-diary of technology use. Overall, results show that mobile phone use is not associated with more harried leisure. Fears of work intruding into home life appear to be exaggerated. However, there is some evidence that frequent use of mobiles during working hours is associated with work intensification, at least among men.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-2009
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-01-2009
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2005
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1998
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-07-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2005
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2000
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Start Date: 2014
End Date: 2015
Funder: Australian Research Council
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