Weighing children; parents agree, but GPs conflicted
| Autor: | Emma L Ladewig, Alan Kelly, Udo Reulbach, Brendan O'Shea, Tom O'Dowd |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Parents Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty General Practice Overweight Parental response General Practitioners Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans Obesity Child Response rate (survey) business.industry Body Weight Outcome measures medicine.disease Health Surveys Postal survey Health promotion Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Female Health education medicine.symptom business Ireland Demography |
| Zdroj: | Archives of Disease in Childhood. 99:543-545 |
| ISSN: | 1468-2044 0003-9888 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/archdischild-2013-304090 |
| Popis: | Background General practitioners (GPs) do not routinely check children9s weight, partly due to concern regarding parental/child response. The aim of this study is to compare GP concerns regarding weighing with parental/child responses. Objective Compare GP insights on weighing children with the experience of parents whose children had been weighed. Methods Part 1: postal survey of 20% sample of Irish GPs. Part 2: general practice-based study checking weight of 5–12 year olds attending 10 practices, with postconsultation parental survey. Setting Irish General Practice. Participants 393 GPs and 457 parents. Outcome measures GP (n=393) and parental (n=434) responses. Results Of 490 GPs surveyed, 393 responded (response rate 80.2%). Few GPs (3.56%) always checked children9s weight. Concern regarding parental response was often (52.2%) or always (19.0%) a concern that affected the likelihood of discussing a child9s weight. Among children (n=457), 14.9% were overweight and 10.9% obese. Almost all (98.6%) parents indicated checking weight was helpful. 4.4% of parents and just over 1 in 4 obese children responded negatively to weighing. Overweight children were more likely to respond negatively (χ 2 =62.6, df=4, p Conclusions GPs are conflicted regarding the acceptability of weighing the child but almost all parents believed it helpful. A minority of obese children responded negatively. |
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