Delivery of Orange Sweet Potato (OSP) in Uganda

Time spent in sedentary behavior is largely due to time spent engaged with electronic screen media. Little is known about the extent to which sedentary behaviors for children with autism spectrum disorder differ from typically developing children. We used parental report to assess and compare time s...

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Autores principales: Ball, Anna-Marie, Low, Jan
Formato: Brief
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151310
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description Time spent in sedentary behavior is largely due to time spent engaged with electronic screen media. Little is known about the extent to which sedentary behaviors for children with autism spectrum disorder differ from typically developing children. We used parental report to assess and compare time spent in sedentary behaviors for 53 children with autism spectrum disorder and 58 typically developing children aged 3–11 years. We also determined how sedentary behavior was related to child weight status (body mass index z-score). Overall, children with autism spectrum disorder spent an hour more in sedentary behaviors on weekdays compared to typically developing children (5.2 vs 4.2 h, p = 0.03), and most of this difference was due to screen time. The age- and sex-adjusted estimate of weekday total daily screen time was 1.6 h (typically developing) compared to 2.5 h (autism spectrum disorder, p = 0.004 for difference). A significant relationship between BMI z-score and total sedentary behavior time on weekend days was observed among young children with ASD, but not among TD children. The modest association between weekend sedentary behaviour time and BMI z-score among children with ASD suggests that sedentary behaiour is linked to relative weight status in these children. Further research is needed to confirm these findings and identify causal pathways.
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spelling CGSpace1513102025-11-06T04:39:59Z Delivery of Orange Sweet Potato (OSP) in Uganda Ball, Anna-Marie Low, Jan sweet potatoes biofortification retinol malnutrition orange-fleshed sweet potatoes nutrition Time spent in sedentary behavior is largely due to time spent engaged with electronic screen media. Little is known about the extent to which sedentary behaviors for children with autism spectrum disorder differ from typically developing children. We used parental report to assess and compare time spent in sedentary behaviors for 53 children with autism spectrum disorder and 58 typically developing children aged 3–11 years. We also determined how sedentary behavior was related to child weight status (body mass index z-score). Overall, children with autism spectrum disorder spent an hour more in sedentary behaviors on weekdays compared to typically developing children (5.2 vs 4.2 h, p = 0.03), and most of this difference was due to screen time. The age- and sex-adjusted estimate of weekday total daily screen time was 1.6 h (typically developing) compared to 2.5 h (autism spectrum disorder, p = 0.004 for difference). A significant relationship between BMI z-score and total sedentary behavior time on weekend days was observed among young children with ASD, but not among TD children. The modest association between weekend sedentary behaviour time and BMI z-score among children with ASD suggests that sedentary behaiour is linked to relative weight status in these children. Further research is needed to confirm these findings and identify causal pathways. 2014 2024-08-01T02:56:35Z 2024-08-01T02:56:35Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151310 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Ball, Anna-Marie and Low, Jan. 2014. Delivery of Orange Sweet Potato (OSP) in Uganda. Biofortification Progress Brief 29. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151310
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Ball, Anna-Marie
Low, Jan
Delivery of Orange Sweet Potato (OSP) in Uganda
title Delivery of Orange Sweet Potato (OSP) in Uganda
title_full Delivery of Orange Sweet Potato (OSP) in Uganda
title_fullStr Delivery of Orange Sweet Potato (OSP) in Uganda
title_full_unstemmed Delivery of Orange Sweet Potato (OSP) in Uganda
title_short Delivery of Orange Sweet Potato (OSP) in Uganda
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topic sweet potatoes
biofortification
retinol
malnutrition
orange-fleshed sweet potatoes
nutrition
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