Does a fulfilling breakfast improve the daily rhythm of infants and parents, and reduce childcare stress?

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 18K02507
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 09030:Childhood and nursery/pre-school education-related
• Research Institution: Tokai Gakuen University
• Principal Investigator: NAKADE MIYO 東海学園大学, 健康栄養学部, 教授 (80352855)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 竹内 日登美 高知大学, 教育研究部人文社会科学系教育学部門, 講師 (10770620)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 子ども学 / 時間生物学 / 生活リズム / 育児ストレス / 朝食習慣

Outline of Final Research Achievements

It was suggested that parents' evening-typed may increase to childcare stress by decreasing their sleep hygiene, and it was confirmed that both parents and children need to correct their evening-typed in order to reduce childcare stress. In addition, there was an association between poor mother's breakfast patterns and parent-child sleeping habits and lifestyle rhythms, indicating that parents' evening-typed is associated with breakfast habit problems, such as increased consumption of single items and irregular time of day. On the other hand, families with good breakfast habits had fewer childcare problems than those without good breakfast habits, suggesting that improving the regularity and content of breakfast may correct the evening-typed of parents and children and reduce the number of problems in childcare.

Free Research Field

時間栄養学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究によって、親子の生活リズム・生活習慣の乱れや、単品摂取などの摂取内容も含めた好ましくない朝食習慣が、育児ストレスや育児の困りごとを助長している可能性が示唆され、朝食改善が育児ストレス軽減に有効であることを示す結果が得られた。これらの結果は、親子の生活リズム是正のみならず、子どもと保護者の心身の健康と良好な親子関係を守る上でも重要な知見である。