Walsh Audrey, Meagher-Stewart Donna, Macdonald Marilyn
Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Qual Health Res. 2015 Apr;25(4):527-39. doi: 10.1177/1049732314552456. Epub 2014 Sep 25.
Mothers' ability to provide healthy food choices for their children has become more complex in our current obesogenic environment. We conducted a total of 35 interviews with 18 mothers of preschool children. Using constructivist grounded theory methods, we developed a substantive theory of how mothers make food choices for their preschoolers. Our substantive theory, persistent optimizing, consists of three main integrated conceptual categories: (a) acknowledging contextual constraints, (b) stretching boundaries, and (c) strategic positioning. Implications to improve mothers' ability to make healthy food choices that reduce their children's risk of becoming overweight or obese are discussed.
在我们当前的致肥胖环境中，母亲为孩子提供健康食物选择的能力变得更加复杂。我们总共对18位学龄前儿童的母亲进行了35次访谈。运用建构主义扎根理论方法，我们构建了一个关于母亲如何为学龄前儿童选择食物的实质性理论。我们的实质性理论——持续优化，由三个主要的综合概念类别组成：（a）认识情境限制，（b）拓展边界，以及（c）战略定位。本文还讨论了提高母亲做出健康食物选择的能力以降低孩子超重或肥胖风险的意义。
