Department of Neonatal and Paediatric Intensive Care, Division of Paediatric Intensive Care, Erasmus MC - Sophia Children's Hospital, PO box 2060, Rotterdam, 3000 CB, the Netherlands.
Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
BMC Health Serv Res. 2024 May 3;24(1):584. doi: 10.1186/s12913-024-10997-y.
Youth healthcare has an important role in promoting a healthy lifestyle in young children in order to prevent lifestyle-related health problems. To aid youth healthcare in this task, a new lifestyle screening tool will be developed. The aim of this study was to explore how youth healthcare professionals (YHCP) could best support parents in improving their children's lifestyle using a new lifestyle screening tool for young children.
We conducted four and seven focus groups among parents (N = 25) and YHCP (N = 25), respectively. Two main topics were addressed: the experiences with current practice of youth healthcare regarding lifestyle in young children, and the requirements for the lifestyle screening tool to be developed. The focus groups were recorded, transcribed verbatim and analysed using an inductive approach.
Both parents and YHCP indicated that young children's lifestyles are often discussed during youth healthcare appointments. While parents felt that this discussion could be more in-depth, YHCP mainly needed clues to continue the discussion. According to parents and YHCP, a new lifestyle screening tool for young children should be easy to use, take little time and provide courses of action. Moreover, it should be attractive to complete and align with the family concerned.
According to parents and YHCP, a new lifestyle screening tool for young children could be useful to discuss specific lifestyle topics in more detail and to provide targeted advice.
青年保健在促进幼儿健康生活方式方面发挥着重要作用,以预防与生活方式相关的健康问题。为了帮助青年保健在这项任务中,将开发一种新的生活方式筛选工具。本研究旨在探讨青年保健医生(YHCP)如何使用新的儿童生活方式筛查工具,最好地支持父母改善孩子的生活方式。
我们分别对父母(N=25)和 YHCP(N=25)进行了四次和七次焦点小组讨论。讨论了两个主要主题:当前青年保健实践中关于幼儿生活方式的经验,以及开发生活方式筛选工具的要求。对焦点小组进行了录音、逐字记录和分析,采用了归纳方法。
父母和 YHCP 都表示,在青年保健预约期间经常讨论幼儿的生活方式。虽然父母认为这种讨论可以更深入,但 YHCP 主要需要线索来继续讨论。根据父母和 YHCP 的说法,应为幼儿开发一种新的生活方式筛选工具,该工具应易于使用、耗时少并提供行动方案。此外,它应该具有吸引力,并且与相关家庭保持一致。
根据父母和 YHCP 的说法,一种新的儿童生活方式筛选工具可以用于更详细地讨论特定的生活方式主题,并提供有针对性的建议。