Department of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, UK.
Department of Management, Business and Social Sciences Faculty, MAPP Centre for Research On Value Creating in the Food Sector, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
BMC Public Health. 2023 Jun 20;23(1):1183. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-15804-7.
Despite an increasing acknowledgement of fathers' involvement in and impact on children's lives, fathers remain underrepresented in child feeding and childhood obesity prevention research, interventions, and actions. Built on our own experiences with conducting research with fathers and recent evidence on this topic, this Research in Practice article has three aims. It will first substantiate the importance of including and studying fathers in the field of child feeding and childhood obesity prevention based on recent study results. Secondly, the article will present and discuss barriers to fathers' inclusion and participation (why isn't it happening?), among other issues, by drawing on sociological and gender ideological insights. Finally, it will provide recommendations and suggestions related to recruitment, focus and methods that can facilitate fathers' involvement in future research, interventions, and practice. Taken together, this article aims to provide tools for giving fathers a voice in the field of child nutrition and by doing so, to decrease maternal-only "burden" of care. We hope our experiences and theoretical reflections will inspire and support researchers and practitioners to be as successful as possible in the realm of family care.
尽管越来越多的人认识到父亲在孩子生活中的参与和影响，但在儿童喂养和儿童肥胖预防研究、干预和行动中，父亲的代表性仍然不足。基于我们自己在与父亲合作开展研究的经验以及该主题的最新证据，这篇实践研究文章有三个目标。首先，它将根据最近的研究结果，证实将父亲纳入儿童喂养和儿童肥胖预防领域并对其进行研究的重要性。其次，本文将通过借鉴社会学和性别意识形态的观点，介绍和讨论将父亲纳入研究和参与的障碍（为什么没有实现？）等问题。最后，它将提供与招募、重点和方法相关的建议，这些建议有助于促进未来研究、干预和实践中父亲的参与。总的来说，本文旨在为父亲在儿童营养领域发声提供工具，从而减少仅由母亲承担的“负担”。我们希望我们的经验和理论反思将激励和支持研究人员和实践者在家庭护理领域取得尽可能大的成功。
