Academic Collaborative Center AMPHI, Integrated Health Policy, Department of Primary and Community Care, ELG 117, Radboud University Medical center, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
BMC Public Health. 2019 Jun 6;19(1):701. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-6826-x.
Parental support is an important element in overweight prevention programs for children. The purpose of this study was to examine everyday life situations in which mothers encounter difficulties encouraging healthy energy balance-related behavior in their school-age children.
We formed four focus groups containing 6-9 participants each. The participants were mothers of Dutch, Turkish, or Moroccan descent with a child 8-13 years of age. All focus group sessions were recorded, transcribed, and coded. Content was analyzed conventionally using ATLAS.ti 6.
Twenty-seven difficult everyday life situations were identified in 14 settings. The five most frequently reported situations were a daily struggle regarding eating vegetables, eating breakfast on time before going to school, eating candy and snacks between meals, and spending excessive time watching television and using the computer. A perceived loss of parental control, the inability to establish rules and the failure to consistently enforce those rules were the most commonly cited reasons for why the mothers experience these situations as being difficult.
We identified five difficult everyday life situations related to healthy energy balance-related behavior. These five difficult situations were used as the input for developing a web-based parenting program designed to prevent children from becoming overweight. We reasoned that if we use these situations and the underlying reasons, many parents would recognize these situations and are willing to learn how to deal with them and complete the e-learning.
父母的支持是儿童超重预防计划的重要组成部分。本研究的目的是探讨母亲在鼓励其学龄儿童养成健康的能量平衡行为时在日常生活中所遇到的困难。
我们组织了四个焦点小组，每个小组包含 6-9 名参与者。参与者是荷兰、土耳其或摩洛哥裔的母亲，其孩子年龄在 8-13 岁之间。所有焦点小组会议都进行了录音、转录和编码。使用 ATLAS.ti 6 软件对内容进行了常规分析。
在 14 种情境中确定了 27 种日常生活中的困难情况。报告最多的五种情况是：每天都在努力让孩子吃蔬菜、按时吃早餐以便上学、在两餐之间吃糖果和零食、花太多时间看电视和使用电脑。母亲们认为这些情况之所以困难，主要是因为她们失去了对孩子的控制、无法制定规则以及未能始终如一地执行这些规则。
我们确定了与健康能量平衡行为相关的五个日常生活中的困难情况。这些五个困难情况被用作开发一个基于网络的育儿计划的输入，旨在防止儿童超重。我们认为，如果我们利用这些情况和潜在的原因，许多父母会意识到这些情况，并愿意学习如何应对这些情况并完成网络学习。
