USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, 1100 Bates Street, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Psychological, Health, and Learning Sciences Department, University of Houston, 3657 Cullen Boulevard Room 491, Houston, TX 77204, USA.
Nutrients. 2020 Dec 18;12(12):3879. doi: 10.3390/nu12123879.
Minority children and children living in under-resourced households are at the greatest risk for obesity and diet-related disparities. Identifying effective strategies to reduce these risks is an important step in child obesity prevention. Parents influence the home environment and play a critical role in child obesity prevention. Eighteen parent-child dyads living in under-resourced Houston area communities participated in a mixed methods study (online surveys, telephone interviews). The purpose of the research reported here was to conduct a secondary analysis of the qualitative data to explore Black/African American and Hispanic parent and child perspectives of the ways in which parents could help their children make healthy food choices. Descriptive statistics were calculated for parent and child demographic characteristics; hybrid thematic analysis was used to code and analyze the interview transcripts. Frequencies were calculated for children's interview responses to rating scales and the grade they gave their eating habits. Mothers' responses were grouped into two broad categories: facilitators (modeling, availability, and teaching) as ways parents could help their child eat healthy, and barriers (lack of time, cost of healthy foods, and lack of knowledge) to helping their child eat healthy. Alternatively, child responses focused on ways in which parents could provide support: environmental support (home availability, home cooking, and introducing new foods) and personal support (providing child choice, teaching, and encouragement). Most children reported that eating healthy was easy, and most rated their personal eating habits as an A or B. These findings suggest that understanding the perspectives of Black/African American and Hispanic parent-child dyads can provide insight into the development of culturally and economically relevant healthy eating strategies and interventions for families living in under-resourced communities.
少数民族儿童和生活在资源匮乏家庭中的儿童面临着肥胖和与饮食相关的差异的最大风险。确定减少这些风险的有效策略是儿童肥胖预防的重要步骤。父母影响家庭环境，在儿童肥胖预防中起着关键作用。18 对生活在休斯顿资源匮乏社区的父母-子女对参加了一项混合方法研究（在线调查、电话访谈）。本报告所述研究的目的是对定性数据进行二次分析，以探索黑人和西班牙裔父母和子女对父母帮助孩子做出健康饮食选择的方式的看法。计算了父母和子女人口统计特征的描述性统计数据；混合主题分析用于对访谈记录进行编码和分析。对儿童对评分量表的访谈回答和他们对饮食习惯的评分进行了频率计算。母亲的回答分为两类：促进者（模仿、可用性和教学），即父母可以帮助孩子健康饮食的方式，以及帮助孩子健康饮食的障碍（缺乏时间、健康食品的成本和缺乏知识）。相反，孩子的回答侧重于父母可以提供支持的方式：环境支持（家庭供应、家庭烹饪和引入新食物）和个人支持（提供孩子选择、教学和鼓励）。大多数孩子表示，健康饮食很容易，大多数孩子给自己的个人饮食习惯评分 A 或 B。这些发现表明，了解黑人和西班牙裔父母-子女对的观点可以深入了解为生活在资源匮乏社区的家庭制定文化和经济相关的健康饮食策略和干预措施。
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