Maternal work hours in early to middle childhood link to later adolescent diet quality

Previous studies on maternal work hours and child diet quality have reported conflicting findings possibly due to differences in study design, lack of a...

Authors:
Li J, O'Sullivan T, Johnson S, Stanley F, Oddy W.

Authors notes:
Public Health Nutr. 2011 Nov 29:1-10. [Epub ahead of print]

Keywords:
Maternal work hours in early to middle childhood link to later adolescent diet quality

Abstract
Previous studies on maternal work hours and child diet quality have reported conflicting findings possibly due to differences in study design, lack of a comprehensive measure of diet quality and differing ages of the children under investigation. The present study aimed to prospectively examine the impact of parental work hours from age 1 year to age 14 years on adolescent diet quality.