Challenges and Facilitators to Promoting a Healthy Food Environment and Communicating Effectively with Parents to Improve Food Behaviors of School Children
| Autor: | Hiershenee B. Luesse, Rachel Paul, Heewon L. Gray, Isobel R. Contento, Pamela Koch, Victoria J. Marsick |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine
Adult Male Parents medicine.medical_specialty Pediatric Obesity Epidemiology Nutrition Education Health Behavior Environment Childhood obesity Developmental psychology Interviews as Topic 03 medical and health sciences Food Preferences 0302 clinical medicine medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Child Poverty Qualitative Research 030109 nutrition & dietetics business.industry Public health Behavior change Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Obstetrics and Gynecology Feeding Behavior Focus Groups medicine.disease Procedural knowledge Focus group Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Female New York City business Social cognitive theory Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | Maternal and child health journal. 22(7) |
| ISSN: | 1573-6628 |
| Popis: | Background Childhood obesity is a major public health concern and families play an important role. Improving strategies to reach parents and directing tailored nutrition education to them is needed. Purpose To investigate the challenges and facilitators to promoting a healthy environment at home and to identify communication preferences to inform intervention strategies for effectively reaching low-income urban minority families. Procedure Semi-structured focus group interviews were conducted with four groups involving 16 low-income urban parents (94% female; 88% Hispanic/Latino, 12% African American) of elementary school children. Interviews were transcribed and analyzed applying Social Cognitive Theory and using in-vivo coding. Main Findings The most common barriers to parents providing healthy foods to their children were accommodating child preferences and familial opposition. Parents showed intentionality to engage in healthy behaviors, and often shared procedural knowledge for reaching health goals. The analyses of desired communication channels yielded major preferences: tailored information, information provided through multiple mediums, appropriate duration/frequency of messages, and presented from a voice of authority. Conclusion and Implication While parents expressed desires to be healthy, the home food environment presented substantial challenges. Multi-media supports such as workshops, flyers, and text messaging may be useful to facilitate the sharing of information to minimize the tensions between intentionality and reaching desired goals to be healthy. Some parents thought that information received through text messaging could be easily shared and would act as a voice of authority to support child behavior change. |
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