Department of Child and Family Science, California State University, 5300 North Campus Drive, Mailstop FF 12, Fresno, CA, USA, 93740.
Psychological, Health, and Learning Sciences Department, University of Houston, A Carnegie-designated Tier One Public Research University, 4800 Calhoun Rd, Houston, TX, 77004, USA.
Appetite. 2021 Apr 1;159:105046. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2020.105046. Epub 2020 Nov 21.
Several perceived barriers to healthy eating within the family (e.g., cost, lack of time, energy, accessibility) are documented. However, few studies have assessed Hispanic mothers' perceived barriers and strategies in implementing healthy eating changes in the family's meals. The primary goal of this qualitative study was to investigate Mexican and Puerto Rican mothers' barriers and strategies to creating healthy eating changes within the family at home. A sample of 46 Mexican-American and Puerto Rican mothers in California, Illinois, and Texas participated in this study. An average of 5 mothers participated in a focus group session in Spanish and completed a demographic survey. Focus group thematic analysis revealed that major barriers to implementing healthy eating changes within the family include child and spouse resistance as well as meal preparation time. The resistance mothers reported encountering magnify their meal preparation workload. Mothers shared that they sometimes prepared multiple meals in a single mealtime to please family members. Several strategies to promote healthy eating at home, including serving as role models, providing easy access to healthy food items at home, and not purchasing, or hiding, unhealthy food at home, were also discussed. The current study expands the existing literature by emphasizing the need to empower parents to make healthy changes within their family and the importance of taking fathers and children into account in programming so that the whole family is involved in making healthy changes.
家庭中存在一些被认为会影响健康饮食的障碍因素（例如，成本、缺乏时间、精力、可及性），这已经有相关记录。然而，很少有研究评估过西班牙裔母亲在家庭用餐中实施健康饮食改变时所面临的障碍和策略。本研究旨在调查加利福尼亚州、伊利诺伊州和德克萨斯州的 46 位墨西哥裔和波多黎各裔母亲在家庭中实现健康饮食改变的障碍和策略。本研究采用了定性研究方法，样本中的 46 位墨西哥裔美国母亲和波多黎各裔母亲参与了此次研究。平均每组 5 位母亲用西班牙语参加了焦点小组会议，并完成了一份人口统计调查。焦点小组的主题分析显示，在家庭中实施健康饮食改变的主要障碍包括孩子和配偶的抵制以及准备餐食的时间。母亲们报告说，她们有时会在一次用餐时间内准备多份餐食，以满足家庭成员的需求。研究还讨论了一些促进家庭健康饮食的策略，包括以身作则、在家中方便地提供健康食品、不购买或隐藏不健康食品等。本研究通过强调需要授权父母在家庭中做出健康改变，以及在制定计划时考虑到父亲和孩子的重要性，从而使整个家庭都参与到健康改变中来，扩展了现有文献。
