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. 2020 Dec 27;22(7):e13185. doi: 10.1111/obr.13185
Dietary behavior Physical activity Sedentary behavior Sleep

‐ Unhealthy snacking and consumption of sugar‐sweetened beverages

‐ Dieting

‐ Skipping meals

‐ Nutrition education obtained from parents

‐ Healthy (parental) role model behavior

‐ House food rules

‐ Pressure to finish eating/plate

‐ Involving child in nutrition‐related practices

‐ Healthy food routines parents

‐ Healthy body image

‐ Disordered eating behavior

‐ Peer pressure to eat unhealthy

‐ Social support healthy eating towards child and parents

‐ Parental support healthy eating

‐ Nutrition knowledge child and parents (nutritional knowledge of main caregiver)

‐ Availability of unhealthy and healthy foods and drinks (availability of unhealthy food)

‐ Accessibility of unhealthy and healthy food and drinks (accessibility of unhealthy food)

‐ Visibility healthy foods and drinks

‐ Income parents

‐ Highest attained education parents

‐ Level of education child

‐ Risk perception child

‐ Attitudes towards healthy/unhealthy eating child and parents (positive attitude towards unhealthy food)

‐ Self‐efficacy towards healthy eating child and parents

‐ Sleep deprivation child (unhealthy sleep behavior)

‐ Mental health child

‐ (Un)healthy food drink preferences child

‐ Price of healthy and unhealthy food and drinks (Price of unhealthy food)

‐ Marketing of healthy and unhealthy foods and drinks (marketing of unhealthy food)

‐ Social media exposure related to body image

‐ Social norm healthy eating

Impulsive behavior child

‐ Nutrition education at school

‐ Cooking skills child and parents (cooking skills main caregivers)

‐ Availability of parents around eating times/moments (available time)

‐ Length and inflexibility of working hours

‐ Fading of traditional eating patterns

‐ Frequency of eating moments

‐ Household budget spent on unhealthy food

‐ (healthy) Food routines at home

‐ Adequate kitchen equipment

‐ Physical activity child

‐ Sedentary behavior

‐ Smoking

‐ Stress levels of child and parents (stress)

‐ Screen time

‐ Portion size (portion size of unhealthy food)

‐ Unconscious overeating

‐ Emotional eating

‐ Eating together at the table

‐ School food rules

‐ Availability of healthy school canteen

‐ Availability of healthy sport canteen

‐ Attractive presentation of unhealthy food and drinks

‐ Duration of lunch breaks

‐ Opening hours of school canteen

‐ Meal duration

‐ Bringing own lunch to school

‐ Availability of vending machines with unhealthy food at school

‐ Parents have a paid job

‐ Authoritative parenting style

‐ Authoritarian parenting style

‐ Permissive parenting style

‐ Using food as a reward

‐ Boredom/hanging together

‐ Eating unhealthy as social activity

‐ Normalization of the consumption of unhealthy food

‐ Exposure of unhealthy food (social) media

‐ Price of food processing

‐ Revenue

‐ Poverty

‐ Health

‐ Access/availability of family transport

‐ Access/provision of school facilities/resources

‐ Availability of PA equipment (PA materials)

‐ Active means of transport to school

‐ Access/distance to destinations

‐ Traffic‐related hazards (safety OAP/AT environment [parent perceived])

‐ Traffic density

‐ Availability/access/proximity of public transport system (public transport network)

Use of public transport

Priority spending money on public transport

‐ Availability/access/proximity of recreational facilities (attractive environment for PA)

‐ Availability/access PA infrastructure/equipment (attractive environment for PA)

‐ Environment aesthetics (attractive environment for PA)

Amount of green/blue space

Urbanization

‐ Pedestrian and cyclist safety structure (safety OAP/AT environment [parent perceived])

‐ Walkability

‐ Time spent outdoors

‐ PA‐related policies by local government

‐ PA school policy

‐ PA‐related school policies (time allowed for free play, field trips)

‐ Organized activities

‐ Recess (proportion class time vs. recess)

‐ School type (high school vs. vocational)

‐ Encouragement from significant others (parenting practices stimulating OAP/AT)

‐ Having a companion for PA (OAP/ACT peers)

‐ Parental modeling

‐ Parental watching

‐ Awareness of PA

‐ Parental concern about environment (safety OAP/AT environment [parent perceived])

‐ Safety OAP/AT environment (child perceived)

‐ Involvement of social contact

‐ Encouragement at school

‐ Teacher management (organization of activities)

‐ PA level at school (teacher PA level)

‐ Seeing people exercise (neighborhood) (OAP/AT peers)

‐ Affective judgement (enjoyment in participation in OAP)

Imagination for OAP

‐ Previous positive experience with OAP

‐ Interest

‐ Perceived behavioral control

‐ Perceived physical appearance

‐ Perceived fitness (motor fitness)

‐ Perceived competence (motor skills)

‐ Physical self‐concept (confidence to participate in OAP)

‐ Self‐efficacy (confidence to participate in OAP)

‐ Self‐worth (confidence to participate in OAP)

‐ Autonomous motivation/regulation

‐ Motivation (motivation to participate in OAP)

‐ Social norm OAP/AT

‐ Goal setting/planning

‐ Intention

‐ Knowledge of PA benefits

‐ Parental occupation

‐ Payment of fees

‐ Income individual or household

‐ Education level

‐ More options to spend free time sedentary

‐ Sedentary behavior at baseline

‐ Eating in front of TV

‐ Food intake

‐ Between meal snacking

‐ Depressive symptoms

‐ Sometimes eating breakfast

‐ Child independent mobility

‐ Deprivation

‐ After school MVPA (alternative options for screen use)*

‐ Attendance after school program (alternative options for screen use)*

‐ SES/parental education

‐ Octracism (social support)

‐ Playground density (number of children at playground)

‐ TV set in bedroom

‐ Existence of safe places to cross roads (school neighborhood)

‐ Time (year of measurement)

‐ Time (SB at school vs. out of school)

‐ Neighborhood SES

‐ Weekend days

‐ Activity setting (type/location)

‐ Campus area per student

‐ School's facilities (lack of/poor quality) (alternative options for screen use)*

‐ Changing facilities

‐ Bike storage facilities

‐ Safe play (= boring)

‐ Spacious environment

‐ School's building design (e.g., more stairs)

‐ Outdated/poor equipment

‐ Rainfall

‐ After school program collects feedback on activities children want

‐ After school staff provided with 1–4 h of PA training

‐ Duration after school PA program session (alternative options for screen use)*

‐ After school program conducted outside (alternative options for screen use)*

‐ At least 25% of after school programs allocated to PA

‐ TV environment

‐ Time in public place; after school

‐ Time outside at home; after school

‐ Time outside at other home; after school

‐ Perceived school climate/support

(teacher)

‐ School social capital (e.g. connectedness)

‐ Hours of PE

‐ Extracurricular PA weekend (alternative options for screen use)*

‐ Duration morning breaks (>15 min)

‐ Duration of lunch break

‐ Provision of pedestrian training

‐ PA infrastructure (lack of, e.g., limited physical environment) (alternative options for screen use)*

‐ Existence of lollypop person (crossing guard)

‐ Number of PA policies

‐ School offers intramural sport (alternative options for screen use)*

‐ Recess exercise (alternative options for screen use)*

‐ Quality of sports management

‐ Maternal TV viewing

‐ Watching TV as a family

‐ Number of parent in the house

‐ Parental TV habits

‐ With mom/dad; after school

‐ With unrelated adult; after school

‐ 24/7 availability of technologies

‐ Use of technologies by schools/companies

‐ Dependency of technologies

‐ Screen use for school/work

‐ Revenues (frequent use of screens generates income for technology developers)

‐ Further development of technologies

‐ Use of screen‐based (social) media by adults

‐ Getting response

‐ Attractive/addictive effect

‐ Use of screen‐based (social) media and (online) games by youths

‐ Social contact

‐ FOMO

‐ Screen use as social norm

‐ Setting and adhering to rules limiting screen use

*Several factors from the longlist have been collapsed into the factor “alternative options for screen use.”

‐ Accessibility to media device(s) in the bedroom: (1) TV, (2) game console, (3) computer, (4) tablet, and (5) mobile phone

‐ Late‐night (multi)passive* media use via (1) TV, (2) computer, (3) tablet, and (4) mobile phone

‐ Late‐night (multi)active* media use via (1) game console, (2) computer, (3) tablet, and (4) mobile phone

‐ Total time per day spent watching TV (screen use)

‐ Total daily time spent per day playing videogames (screen use)

‐ Alcohol use

‐ Evening light exposure (nonmedia device)

‐ Proper timing and intensity of daylight exposure (natural daylight exposure)

‐ Caffeine use (coffee, energy drinks, etc.) (evening snacking and caffeine use)

‐ Doing homework in the evening (evening homework)

‐ Parent‐set bedtimes and other sleep hygiene practices (at‐home rules on sleep and on evening screen use)

‐ Parental personal determinants towards healthy sleeping (knowledge, attitude, skills)

‐ Parental modeling

‐ Lacking a healthy, consistent bedtime routine

‐ Bedroom characteristics (cool, dark, quiet, clean) (safe, sleep‐stimulating home and sleep environment)

‐ Being and/or feeling unsafe at home (stress; presleep worrying)

Presleep alertness

‐ Relaxing presleep activities

Overcrowding at home (safe, sleep‐stimulating home and sleep environment)

‐ Noise hindering at home

Needing a moment of rest

‐ Side job

‐ Biorhythm‐adapted school start times

‐ Extracurricular and social activities

‐ Sports and other after school activities during the day (daytime sports and PA)

‐ Sports and other after school activities during the evening (evening sports and PA)

‐ Pressure to perform in school (pressure to perform in school)

‐ Poor school performance

‐ Stressful school environment and/or being bullied

‐ Sleep disturbances (wake up after sleep onset and sleep onset latency [sleep quality])

‐ Mental health issues

‐ Medicine use

‐ Obesity

‐ Obstructive sleep apnea

‐ Clinical sleep disturbances

‐ Seasonal effects on duration of days

‐ Biological morningness or eveningness preference

Adolescent circadian rhythm

‐ Daytime napping

‐ Daytime sleepiness

‐ FOMO

*Passive media use = watching movies, series, Netflix, YouTube, and so forth without the goal of social interaction.

*Active media use = media use with an activity and/or social interaction component.