May Chris, Chai Li Kheng, Burrows Tracy
School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, Newcastle 2308, Australia.
Priority Research Centre in Physical Activity and Nutrition, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales 2308, Australia.
Children (Basel). 2017 Apr 21;4(4):29. doi: 10.3390/children4040029.
Research is increasingly pointing to the importance of extending the focus of childhood obesity intervention to include fathers, fathering figures, and other members of a child's primary parenting network. Advances in communication technology are now making it possible to achieve this aim, within current resources, using modalities such text messaging, web-based resources and apps that extend intervention to parents not in attendance at face to face interactions. However, published research is often unclear as to which parent/s they targeted or engaged with, whether interventions planned to influence behaviours and capabilities across family systems, and how this can be achieved. As childhood obesity research employing information technology to engage with family systems takes hold it is becoming important for researchers clearly describe who they engage with, what they hope to achieve with them, and the pathways of influence that they aim to activate. This paper integrates extant knowledge on family systems thinking, parenting efficacy, co-parenting, and family intervention with the way parents are represented and reported in childhood obesity research. The paper concludes with recommendations on terminology that can be used to describe parents and parenting figures in future studies.
越来越多的研究表明，将儿童肥胖干预的重点扩大到包括父亲、充当父亲角色的人以及孩子主要育儿网络中的其他成员非常重要。通信技术的进步使得在现有资源范围内，利用短信、网络资源和应用程序等方式实现这一目标成为可能，这些方式可以将干预扩展到未参加面对面互动的家长。然而，已发表的研究往往不清楚其针对或接触的是哪些家长，干预措施是否计划影响整个家庭系统的行为和能力，以及如何实现这一点。随着利用信息技术与家庭系统互动的儿童肥胖研究逐渐兴起，研究人员清楚地描述他们接触的对象、希望与他们达成的目标以及旨在激活的影响途径变得越来越重要。本文将关于家庭系统思维、育儿效能、共同育儿和家庭干预的现有知识与儿童肥胖研究中对家长的呈现和报道方式相结合。本文最后提出了关于未来研究中可用于描述家长和充当父亲角色的人的术语的建议。
