Clinical Dietitian, Roxborough Memorial Hospital, 5800 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19128, USA.
Nutr Res Pract. 2009 Fall;3(3):226-33. doi: 10.4162/nrp.2009.3.3.226. Epub 2009 Sep 30.
Traditional nutrition education has not been shown to consistently produce behavior change. While it has been suggested that using emotion-based messages may be a better way to influence nutrition behavior change, this has not been well tested. Producing emotion-based messages is a multi-step process that begins with exploring subconscious barriers to behavior change rather than the more obvious and typically reported barriers. The purpose of this research was to uncover the emotional reasons, sometimes referred to as emotional pulse points, for mothers' choosing or not choosing to have more family meals. This would then serve as the first step to developing emotion-based messages promoting the benefits of family meals. Five focus group interviews were conducted with 51 low-income Black (n=28) and white (n=23) mothers. Metaphorical techniques were used to determine underlying feelings toward family and family meals. Discussions were video-taped, transcribed, and manually analyzed using a content-driven, immersion/crystallization approach to qualitative data analysis. Four themes emerged around the definition of family: acceptance, sharing, chaos, and protective/loyal. Some mothers felt mealtime was merely obligatory, and described it as stressful. Some reported a preference for attending to their own needs instead of sitting down with their children, while others felt that mealtime should be used to interact with and educate children and felt guilty when they were not able to provide family meals. Three themes emerged around feelings towards having or not having family meals: unimportant, important, and guilty. When explored further, mothers indicated that using the feeling of guilt to encourage family meals might be effective. Data obtained are being used to develop innovative, emotion-based messages that will be tested for effectiveness in promoting family meals.
传统的营养教育并没有被证明能够持续地改变行为。虽然有人认为使用基于情感的信息可能是影响营养行为改变的更好方法，但这并没有得到很好的验证。制作基于情感的信息是一个多步骤的过程，首先要探索行为改变的潜意识障碍，而不是更明显和通常报告的障碍。这项研究的目的是揭示母亲选择或不选择更多家庭餐的情感原因，有时也被称为情感脉搏点。这将是开发基于情感的信息以促进家庭餐益处的第一步。对 51 名低收入的黑人和白人母亲（黑人 28 名，白人 23 名）进行了五次焦点小组访谈。使用隐喻技巧来确定对家庭和家庭用餐的潜在感受。讨论进行了录像、转录，并使用内容驱动的沉浸式/结晶方法对定性数据分析进行了手动分析。有四个主题围绕家庭的定义出现：接受、分享、混乱和保护/忠诚。有些母亲觉得用餐时间只是强制性的，描述起来很有压力。有些母亲报告说更喜欢关注自己的需求，而不是和孩子坐在一起，而有些母亲则认为用餐时间应该用来与孩子互动和教育孩子，当她们无法提供家庭餐时，她们会感到内疚。有三个主题围绕着是否有家庭餐的感受出现：不重要、重要和内疚。进一步探讨时，母亲们表示，利用内疚感来鼓励家庭用餐可能是有效的。正在使用获得的数据来开发创新的、基于情感的信息，以测试其在促进家庭用餐方面的有效性。
