Publications by authors named "Lydia Reader"
Article Synopsis
- Childhood physical activity is crucial for establishing long-term health.
- There are many known factors that influence physical activity levels, but knowledge about early childhood remains limited.
- The review highlights gaps in current datasets, aiming to inform and direct future research efforts.
Introduction: Despite widespread recognition among public health experts that childhood sugar-sweetened beverage consumption should be reduced, doing so has proven to be a challenge. An agent-based model of early childhood sugar-sweetened beverage consumption was applied to data from three high-quality, longitudinal cohort studies to gain insight into potentially effective intervention strategies across contexts.
Methods: From 2021 to 2023, a single agent-based model design was applied to data sets derived from three separate cohorts of children followed from infancy to childhood, with very different populations and environments (participants recruited in 1999-2002; 2003-2010; and 2009-2014).