Mothers of pre‐school children talk about childhood overweight and obesity: The Weight of Opinion study

Pagnini, Deanna; Wilkenfeld, Rachel L; King, Lesley; Booth, Michael; Booth, Susan

doi:10.1111/j.1440-1754.2007.01199.x

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“…Previous literature has identified negative outcomes of restrictive feeding practices: increasing the consumption of restricted foods, eating in the absence of hunger, and the high vulnerability of obesity [36][37][38][39]. Concerned mothers of overweight children are likely to use restrictive feeding practices with their child [17,33,39]. While mothers using restrictive feeding practices were not concerned about weight in the present study, participants frequently reported use of restrictive feeding practices with their children.…”

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Saudi Arabian Mothers’ Child Feeding Practices, Autonomy, and Concern about Child Weight

Almarhoon¹,

Ramsay²,

Fletcher³

et al. 2016

J Food Nutri Diete

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“…Improper feeding practices may endanger children for eating disorders or may lead to overfeeding or underfeeding [12][13][14][15]. For example, preventing children from eating a restricted food can make them consume more of that food, and forcing them to eat can foster a distaste of that food [14,16,17]. …”

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Saudi Arabian Mothers’ Child Feeding Practices, Autonomy, and Concern about Child Weight

Almarhoon¹,

Ramsay²,

Fletcher³

et al. 2016

J Food Nutri Diete

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“…One possible explanation is that parents of children of this age think their child has 'puppy fat' and is something that they 'will grow out of'. While not examining identification of weight status, Pagnini et al (8) reported that mothers of preschool-aged children were more concerned about their child being underweight than overweight. Child obesity campaigns may need to focus efforts on parents of very young children in order to challenge this pattern of thinking.…”

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Understanding parent concerns about children’s diet, activity and weight status: an important step towards effective obesity prevention interventions

Slater

Bowen

Corsini

et al. 2009

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To identify parents' concerns and attitudes towards children's diets, activity habits and weight status. Design: Computer-assisted telephone interviewing administration of a 37-item survey. Data were weighted for parental education level. Descriptive results are presented, and comparisons are made by the age, gender and parental characteristics of the child. Setting: Online research panel of Australian parents. Subjects: A total of 1202 randomly selected parents of children aged 2-16 years, broadly representative of the Australian population. Results: Parents were concerned about their child's education (reported by 35 % of respondents), child's health and well-being (25 %), and violence, drugs and alcohol (20 %). Concern about nutrition was indicated by 14 % of respondents and concern about fitness/exercise was indicated by 3 % of the sample. Factors perceived as making a healthy diet difficult to achieve for their child were child resistance (89 %), the availability of healthy food (72 %), a busy lifestyle (67 %) and the influence of food advertising (63 %). Ninety-two per cent of parents thought that it was realistic for their child to be active for at least 1 h/d, with 75 % of parents feeling that it was realistic for their child to have less than 2 h recreational screen time per d. Despite this, common barriers to achieving the activity guidelines were lack of time, weather and keeping children occupied. Conclusions: Insights into parental concerns from the current study may be useful in guiding development of interventions to improve children's nutrition and physical activity habits by framing messages in a way that are most likely to resonate with parents.

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“…Parents report the need for support in overcoming skill and knowledge barriers (13)(14)(15)(16) in order to facilitate healthy eating behaviours in their children. Methods of providing parental support that are effective in increasing fruit and vegetable consumption, that can be feasibly delivered to a large number of parents at a relatively low cost and that are considered acceptable to parents represent public health approaches likely to benefit children's nutrition (17) .…”

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A pilot study of a telephone-based parental intervention to increase fruit and vegetable consumption in 3–5-year-old children

Wyse

Wolfenden

Campbell

et al. 2011

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Objective: To examine the potential efficacy of a brief telephone-based parental intervention in increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged 3-5 years and to examine the feasibility of intervention delivery and acceptability to parents. Design: A pre-post study design with no comparison group. Telephone surveys were conducted approximately 1 week before and following intervention delivery. Setting: Participants were recruited through pre-schools in the Hunter region, New South Wales, Australia. Subjects: Thirty-four parents of 3-5-year-olds received four 30-min interventional telephone calls over 4 weeks administered by trained telephone interviewers. The scripted support calls focused on fruit and vegetable availability and accessibility within the home, parental role modelling of fruit and vegetable consumption and on implementing supportive family eating routines. Results: Following the intervention, the frequency and variety of fruit and vegetable consumption increased (P 5 0?027), as measured by a subscale of the children's dietary questionnaire. The intervention was feasible to be delivered to parents, as all participants who started the intervention completed all four calls, and all aspects of the interventional calls, including the number, length, content, format and relevance, were considered acceptable by more than 90 % of parents. Conclusions: A brief telephone-based parental intervention to encourage fruit and vegetable consumption in pre-school-aged children may be effective, feasible and acceptable. Further investigation is warranted in a randomised controlled trial.

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Mothers of pre‐school children talk about childhood overweight and obesity: The Weight of Opinion study

Cited by 64 publications

References 13 publications

Saudi Arabian Mothers’ Child Feeding Practices, Autonomy, and Concern about Child Weight

Saudi Arabian Mothers’ Child Feeding Practices, Autonomy, and Concern about Child Weight

Understanding parent concerns about children’s diet, activity and weight status: an important step towards effective obesity prevention interventions

A pilot study of a telephone-based parental intervention to increase fruit and vegetable consumption in 3–5-year-old children

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