Bleich Sara N, Gorski Findling Mary T, Blendon Robert J, Ben-Porath Eran, SteelFisher Gillian K
Health Policy and Management, Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
J Obes. 2019 Jan 9;2019:9192340. doi: 10.1155/2019/9192340. eCollection 2019.
Parents play a critical role in their children's weight. This paper examines parents' perceptions about the challenges to helping their kids maintain or achieve a healthy weight.
We analyzed data in 2017 from a U.S. telephone poll conducted during October-November 2012 among parents or caregivers of children aged 2-17 years using a nationally representative sample of households. It included 667 White, 123 Black, and 167 Hispanic parents. Multiple logistic regressions were used to examine parent perceptions about the individual- and environmental-level challenges to helping their children maintain or achieve a healthy weight.
Overall, 45% of children have parents who reported challenges helping the child eat to maintain or achieve a healthy weight, and 35% have parents who reported challenges for exercise. According to parents, most children consumed snacks between 3 pm and bedtime during the school week (83%), and 63% of those children had an unhealthy snack. Parents did not express much concern about unhealthy snacks; 80% of children had parents who said that they did not mind since their child generally ate healthy food. Children with Hispanic and Black parents were more likely than those with White parents to have parents reporting environment challenges, such as unhealthy foods in schools.
Helping children maintain a healthy weight through diet is a problem for many parents, regardless of their race or ethnicity. Differences by race/ethnicity in parent perceptions of food environment challenges to helping their child maintain or achieve a healthy weight suggest possible areas for future interventions.
父母在孩子的体重问题上起着关键作用。本文探讨了父母对于帮助孩子维持或达到健康体重所面临挑战的看法。
我们分析了2017年的数据，这些数据来自于2012年10月至11月在美国进行的一项电话民意调查，调查对象是2至17岁儿童的父母或照料者，采用了具有全国代表性的家庭样本。其中包括667名白人父母、123名黑人父母和167名西班牙裔父母。使用多元逻辑回归来研究父母对于帮助孩子维持或达到健康体重在个人层面和环境层面所面临挑战的看法。
总体而言，45%的孩子的父母表示在帮助孩子饮食以维持或达到健康体重方面存在困难，35%的孩子的父母表示在锻炼方面存在困难。据父母反映，大多数孩子在上学日下午3点至就寝时间之间吃零食（83%），其中63%的孩子吃的是不健康零食。父母对不健康零食不太担心；80%的孩子的父母表示他们不介意，因为他们的孩子总体上吃健康食品。与白人父母的孩子相比，西班牙裔和黑人父母的孩子的父母更有可能报告环境方面的挑战，比如学校里的不健康食品。
对许多父母来说，通过饮食帮助孩子维持健康体重是个问题，无论他们的种族或族裔如何。父母在帮助孩子维持或达到健康体重时对食物环境挑战的看法存在种族/族裔差异，这为未来的干预措施指明了可能的方向。
