AOK Family Study: Fat Fathers, lazy children

Families move too little, children prefer to play on mobile phones, many parents are overweight. The AOK Family study also shows: most people feel good.

AOK Family Study: Fat Fathers, lazy children

"Clear alarm signal", says Jens Martin Hoyer, deputy chairman of Executive Board of AOK, results of current family study of his health insurance company, which was presented on Monday in Berlin. The IGEs Institute interviewed almost 5,000 mors and fars and found out, among or things, that every third family moves too little, more than half of parents are too fat, often fars. Furr results in detail:

Media consumption: Instead of going out children play especially on free days on smartphone and tablet: 59 percent DerKinder of four to six years use media longer than experts recommended half-hour a day, at Wochenendeliegt this value even at 84 percent. It looks similar in children from Siebenbis eleven years ago.

Stress factors: 40 percent of respondents indicated that temporal stress was greatest Belastungsfaktorin of ir lives. Compared to last survey of Aok four years ago, this stress factor has decreased slightly: time exposure gave 2014 to 46 percent as a problem, 2018 were only 40 percent. The financial impact has fallen furr: from 33 percent 2010 to 27 percent in 2018. Even fewer respondents perceive physical exertion as onerous (2018nur still 17 percent). What is increasing are partnership problems: After a short fall of 2014 to 14 percent, y have now risen to 20 percent.

Health: The positive result of AOK family study 2018:76 percent of parents rate ir Gesundheitszustandals very well or well (2014:69 percent). Respondents fühltensich to 77 percent well, single-raisers to 69 percent. However, one's own assessment is marred by or figures: 36 percent of parents are overweight, 22 percent obese. For fars, 72 percent fall into one of two categories, with mors 50 percent.

Infrastructure: A step towards more movement would be secured bicycle paths, easily accessible sports fields, swimming pools or playgrounds. "Children who, according to ir parents, live in an attractive residential environment, Bewegensich on average 3.8 days a week and thus 27 percent more than children who do not find se conditions at all (3.0 days per week). The same is also case with joint cycling, " scientists say. 80 percent of parents want furr improvements.

Date Of Update: 03 July 2018, 12:02
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