Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Acta Paediatr. 2012 Feb;101(2):208-15. doi: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2011.02446.x. Epub 2011 Sep 14.
To explore parents' perspectives on providing their preschool child with a healthy lifestyle, including obstacles and resources.
Five semi-structured focus group interviews were conducted, with 30 parents of 4-year-olds in Sweden. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using Systematic Text Condensation.
Four themes emerged from the qualitative analysis: Lifestyle -'The way you live is parents' responsibility', Challenges to promote children's healthy lifestyle, Support from professionals, and peers might facilitate, and Request for an overall responsibility from society. Parents felt that they were role models for their child's lifestyle, a concept including many factors. Attractive and tempting sedentary activities and unhealthy foods were perceived as obstacles, and parents were frustrated by the media's contradictory lifestyle messages. Child health services were expected to more actively invite parents to discuss their child's lifestyle issues. Parents desired some collective responsibility for children's lifestyles through agencies, services and media messages that support and promote healthy choices.
Parents struggled to give their children a healthy lifestyle and the 'temptations' of daily unhealthy choices causing hassles and conflicts. Parents desired professional support from preschool, Child Health Care and a collective responsibility from society with uniform guidelines. Parents groups were mentioned as peer support.
探讨父母为学龄前儿童提供健康生活方式的观点，包括障碍和资源。
在瑞典对 30 名 4 岁儿童的家长进行了 5 次半结构化焦点小组访谈。对访谈进行了逐字转录，并使用系统文本浓缩进行了分析。
定性分析中出现了四个主题：生活方式 - “你的生活方式是父母的责任”、促进儿童健康生活方式的挑战、专业人士和同伴的支持可能会促进、以及社会承担全面责任的要求。父母认为他们是孩子生活方式的榜样，这一概念包括许多因素。有吸引力和诱人的久坐不动的活动和不健康的食物被认为是障碍，父母对媒体矛盾的生活方式信息感到沮丧。儿童保健服务机构被期望更积极地邀请家长讨论孩子的生活方式问题。家长希望通过机构、服务和支持和促进健康选择的媒体信息，为儿童的生活方式承担一些集体责任。
父母努力为孩子提供健康的生活方式，但日常生活中不健康选择的“诱惑”带来了麻烦和冲突。家长希望从学前教育、儿童保健和社会承担统一准则的集体责任中获得专业支持。家长群体被提及为同伴支持。
