Elviira Lehto
Biographic Data
| ID | 6264775 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elviira Lehto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elviira |
| FAMILY NAME | Lehto |
| SIGNATURE | LEHTO E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1577-6683 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Does food insecurity compromise diet quality among Finnish private sector service workers
Objective: To investigate the association between food insecurity (FI) and diet quality in private sector service workers. Design: Data were collected via electronic questionnaires (2019) and the national register data (2018–2019). FI was measured using the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) and diet quality using an FFQ and a modified Healthy Food Intake Index (mHFII). The associations between HFIAS and mHFII were studied using ANOVA…
How energy balance-related behaviours, temperament, stress and overweight associate
Objective: This study aimed to (1) examine the clustering of energy balance-related behaviours (EBRB) and (2) investigate whether EBRB clusters, temperament and hair cortisol concentration (HCC) associate with overweight. Design: We assessed food consumption using food records, screen time (ST) using sedentary behaviour diaries, sleep consistency and temperament (negative affectivity, surgency, effortful control) using questionnaires and HCC usin…
Private sector service workers’ well-being before and during the Covid-19 pandemic
Workers attending to the essential functions of society have been most affected by COVID-19, but the well-being of workers outside the health care sector has scarcely been documented. We describe well-being profiles of Finnish blue-collar workers in private sector services and changes in their well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. Altogether 6345 members of the Service Union United provided cross-sectional pre-COVID data in April-June 2019, an…
Food purchase behaviour in a Finnish population
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Effects of the Dagis randomized controlled trial on home environment and children’s food consumption according to the degree of implementation
ISRCTN57165350 (8 January, 2015)
Food purchase behaviour in a Finnish population
Objective: To identify food purchase patterns and to assess their carbon footprint and expenditure. Design: Cross-sectional. Setting: Purchase patterns were identified by factor analysis from the annual purchases of 3435 product groups. The associations between purchase patterns and the total purchases’ carbon footprints (based on life-cycle assessment) and expenditure were analysed using linear regression and adjusted for nutritional energy cont…
Are associations between home environment and preschool children’s sedentary time influenced by parental educational level in a cross-sectional survey
Future interventions aiming to decrease SED should pay attention to relevant factors in children's sedentary behaviour home environment. It is important to acknowledge the possible PEL differences in these factors
Do stressed children have a lot on their plates? A cross-sectional study of long-term stress and diet among Finnish preschoolers
We examined the association between hair cortisol concentration (HCC) - an indicator of long-term stress - and diet among preschoolers in a cross-sectional design. The participants were 597 Finnish 3-6-year-olds, and the data were collected in 2015-16. We used 4-cm hair samples to analyze HCC during the past four months. Food consumption was assessed using a food frequency questionnaire, and we used consumption frequencies of selected food groups…
Does temperament make children differently susceptible to their home physical food environment? A cross-sectional Dagis study on 3–6 year old Finnish children's food consumption
Development of the Dagis intervention study
ISRCTN57165350 (Prospectively registered January the 8th, 2015)
A cross-sectional study of children's temperament, food consumption and the role of food-related parenting practices
Although evidence exists of the association between children's temperament and weight, only few studies have examined how temperament is associated with actual food consumption among preschoolers. We examined concurrent associations between children's temperament and the consumption of different foods, and investigated whether the association between children's temperament and vegetable consumption is mediated by vegetable-related parenting pract…
Parental Education and Pre-School Children’s Objectively Measured Sedentary Time
Parental co-participation in physical activity (PA) may be a beneficial parenting practice for diminishing children's sedentary time (ST). Less information is available, however, on the explanatory role of co-participation in PA regarding parental educational differences in children's ST. Preschool-aged children (N = 864, mean age 4.8, 52% boys) with their parents participated in a cross-sectional DAGIS (Increased Health and Wellbeing in Pre-scho…
Increased Health and Wellbeing in Preschools (Dagis) Study—Differences in Children’s Energy Balance-Related Behaviors (EBRBs) and in Long-Term Stress by Parental Educational Level
This paper describes the Increased Health and Wellbeing in Preschools (DAGIS) survey process and socioeconomic status (SES) differences in children's energy balance-related behaviors (EBRBs), meaning physical activity, sedentary and dietary behaviors, and long-term stress that serve as the basis for the intervention development. A cross-sectional survey was conducted during 2015−2016 in 66 Finnish preschools in eight municipalities involving 864 …
The mediating role of the home environment in relation to parental educational level and preschool children’s screen time
Our study recognized multiple modifiable mediators in the associations between parental education and preschool children's screen time. When aiming to diminish socioeconomic status differences in preschool children's screen time, the focus should be on parental role models, attitudes, and norm related to children's screen time
Mediation of parental educational level on fruit and vegetable intake among schoolchildren in ten European countries
Objective To examine which factors act as mediators between parental educational level and children's fruit and vegetable (F&V) intake in ten European countries. Design Cross-sectional data were collected in ten European countries participating in the PRO GREENS project (2009). Schoolchildren completed a validated FFQ about their daily F&V intake and filled in a questionnaire about availability of F&V at home, parental facilitation of F&V intake,…
Predicting gender differences in liking for vegetables and preference for a variety of vegetables among 11-year-old children
Sense of Coherence, Depressive Symptoms, Cardiovascular Diseases, and All-Cause Mortality
OBJECTIVE: There is increasing interest in whether positive and negative psychological constructs are bipolar opposites of the same phenomenon. We examine whether a positive construct--sense of coherence (SOC)--has independent predictive power over and above depressive symptoms for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality. METHODS: Participants included 3850 men and 4083 women aged 25 to 74 years who had participated in risk factor su…
A cross-sectional study of children's temperament, food consumption and the role of food-related parenting practices
Although evidence exists of the association between children's temperament and weight, only few studies have examined how temperament is associated with actual food consumption among preschoolers. We examined concurrent associations between children's temperament and the consumption of different foods, and investigated whether the association between children's temperament and vegetable consumption is mediated by vegetable-related parenting pract…
Predicting gender differences in liking for vegetables and preference for a variety of vegetables among 11-year-old children
Do stressed children have a lot on their plates? A cross-sectional study of long-term stress and diet among Finnish preschoolers
We examined the association between hair cortisol concentration (HCC) - an indicator of long-term stress - and diet among preschoolers in a cross-sectional design. The participants were 597 Finnish 3-6-year-olds, and the data were collected in 2015-16. We used 4-cm hair samples to analyze HCC during the past four months. Food consumption was assessed using a food frequency questionnaire, and we used consumption frequencies of selected food groups…
Sense of Coherence, Depressive Symptoms, Cardiovascular Diseases, and All-Cause Mortality
OBJECTIVE: There is increasing interest in whether positive and negative psychological constructs are bipolar opposites of the same phenomenon. We examine whether a positive construct--sense of coherence (SOC)--has independent predictive power over and above depressive symptoms for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality. METHODS: Participants included 3850 men and 4083 women aged 25 to 74 years who had participated in risk factor su…
Mediation of parental educational level on fruit and vegetable intake among schoolchildren in ten European countries
Objective To examine which factors act as mediators between parental educational level and children's fruit and vegetable (F&V) intake in ten European countries. Design Cross-sectional data were collected in ten European countries participating in the PRO GREENS project (2009). Schoolchildren completed a validated FFQ about their daily F&V intake and filled in a questionnaire about availability of F&V at home, parental facilitation of F&V intake,…
Predicting gender differences in liking for vegetables and preference for a variety of vegetables among 11-year-old children
The mediating role of the home environment in relation to parental educational level and preschool children’s screen time
Our study recognized multiple modifiable mediators in the associations between parental education and preschool children's screen time. When aiming to diminish socioeconomic status differences in preschool children's screen time, the focus should be on parental role models, attitudes, and norm related to children's screen time
Parental Education and Pre-School Children’s Objectively Measured Sedentary Time
Parental co-participation in physical activity (PA) may be a beneficial parenting practice for diminishing children's sedentary time (ST). Less information is available, however, on the explanatory role of co-participation in PA regarding parental educational differences in children's ST. Preschool-aged children (N = 864, mean age 4.8, 52% boys) with their parents participated in a cross-sectional DAGIS (Increased Health and Wellbeing in Pre-scho…
Increased Health and Wellbeing in Preschools (Dagis) Study—Differences in Children’s Energy Balance-Related Behaviors (EBRBs) and in Long-Term Stress by Parental Educational Level
This paper describes the Increased Health and Wellbeing in Preschools (DAGIS) survey process and socioeconomic status (SES) differences in children's energy balance-related behaviors (EBRBs), meaning physical activity, sedentary and dietary behaviors, and long-term stress that serve as the basis for the intervention development. A cross-sectional survey was conducted during 2015−2016 in 66 Finnish preschools in eight municipalities involving 864 …
Development of the Dagis intervention study
ISRCTN57165350 (Prospectively registered January the 8th, 2015)
A cross-sectional study of children's temperament, food consumption and the role of food-related parenting practices
Although evidence exists of the association between children's temperament and weight, only few studies have examined how temperament is associated with actual food consumption among preschoolers. We examined concurrent associations between children's temperament and the consumption of different foods, and investigated whether the association between children's temperament and vegetable consumption is mediated by vegetable-related parenting pract…
Are associations between home environment and preschool children’s sedentary time influenced by parental educational level in a cross-sectional survey
Future interventions aiming to decrease SED should pay attention to relevant factors in children's sedentary behaviour home environment. It is important to acknowledge the possible PEL differences in these factors
Do stressed children have a lot on their plates? A cross-sectional study of long-term stress and diet among Finnish preschoolers
We examined the association between hair cortisol concentration (HCC) - an indicator of long-term stress - and diet among preschoolers in a cross-sectional design. The participants were 597 Finnish 3-6-year-olds, and the data were collected in 2015-16. We used 4-cm hair samples to analyze HCC during the past four months. Food consumption was assessed using a food frequency questionnaire, and we used consumption frequencies of selected food groups…
Does temperament make children differently susceptible to their home physical food environment? A cross-sectional Dagis study on 3–6 year old Finnish children's food consumption
Effects of the Dagis randomized controlled trial on home environment and children’s food consumption according to the degree of implementation
ISRCTN57165350 (8 January, 2015)
Food purchase behaviour in a Finnish population
Objective: To identify food purchase patterns and to assess their carbon footprint and expenditure. Design: Cross-sectional. Setting: Purchase patterns were identified by factor analysis from the annual purchases of 3435 product groups. The associations between purchase patterns and the total purchases’ carbon footprints (based on life-cycle assessment) and expenditure were analysed using linear regression and adjusted for nutritional energy cont…
Private sector service workers’ well-being before and during the Covid-19 pandemic
Workers attending to the essential functions of society have been most affected by COVID-19, but the well-being of workers outside the health care sector has scarcely been documented. We describe well-being profiles of Finnish blue-collar workers in private sector services and changes in their well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. Altogether 6345 members of the Service Union United provided cross-sectional pre-COVID data in April-June 2019, an…
Food purchase behaviour in a Finnish population
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Does food insecurity compromise diet quality among Finnish private sector service workers
Objective: To investigate the association between food insecurity (FI) and diet quality in private sector service workers. Design: Data were collected via electronic questionnaires (2019) and the national register data (2018–2019). FI was measured using the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) and diet quality using an FFQ and a modified Healthy Food Intake Index (mHFII). The associations between HFIAS and mHFII were studied using ANOVA…
How energy balance-related behaviours, temperament, stress and overweight associate
Objective: This study aimed to (1) examine the clustering of energy balance-related behaviours (EBRB) and (2) investigate whether EBRB clusters, temperament and hair cortisol concentration (HCC) associate with overweight. Design: We assessed food consumption using food records, screen time (ST) using sedentary behaviour diaries, sleep consistency and temperament (negative affectivity, surgency, effortful control) using questionnaires and HCC usin…
Medicine (15 works) · Environmental health (11 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Demography (7 works) · Eating Disorders and Behaviors (5 works) · Gerontology (5 works) · Population (5 works) · Cross-sectional study (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works)