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The Complexity of Food Provisioning Decisions by Māori Caregivers to Ensure the Happiness and Health of Their Children

Obesity in children is a global health concern. In New Zealand, one in three school entrant children are overweight or obese. Māori, the indigenous people, are disproportionately represented among the lowest economic group and have a disproportionately high incidence of obesity. This study explored...

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Autores principales: Glover, Marewa, Wong, Sally F., Taylor, Rachael W., Derraik, José G. B., Fa’alili-Fidow, Jacinta, Morton, Susan M., Cutfield, Wayne S.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6566933/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31052332
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu11050994
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author Glover, Marewa
Wong, Sally F.
Taylor, Rachael W.
Derraik, José G. B.
Fa’alili-Fidow, Jacinta
Morton, Susan M.
Cutfield, Wayne S.
author_facet Glover, Marewa
Wong, Sally F.
Taylor, Rachael W.
Derraik, José G. B.
Fa’alili-Fidow, Jacinta
Morton, Susan M.
Cutfield, Wayne S.
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description Obesity in children is a global health concern. In New Zealand, one in three school entrant children are overweight or obese. Māori, the indigenous people, are disproportionately represented among the lowest economic group and have a disproportionately high incidence of obesity. This study explored Māori parents’ and caregivers’ views of the relative importance of weight to health, and the facilitators and barriers to a healthy weight in children aged 6 months to 5 years. Using a grounded qualitative method, in-depth information was collected in focus groups with mostly urban parents and other caregivers. A general inductive thematic analysis (content driven) was used. Insufficient money was an overriding food provisioning factor, but cost interacted with the lack of time, the number of people to feed, their appetites, and allergies. Other factors included ideologies about healthy food, cultural values relating to food selection, serving, and eating, nutrition literacy, availability of food, cooking skills, and lack of help. Childhood obesity was not a priority concern for participants, though they supported interventions providing education on how to grow vegetables, how to plan and cook cheaper meals. Holistic interventions to reduce the negative effects of the economic and social determinants on child health more broadly were recommended.
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spelling pubmed-65669332019-06-17 The Complexity of Food Provisioning Decisions by Māori Caregivers to Ensure the Happiness and Health of Their Children Glover, Marewa Wong, Sally F. Taylor, Rachael W. Derraik, José G. B. Fa’alili-Fidow, Jacinta Morton, Susan M. Cutfield, Wayne S. Nutrients Article Obesity in children is a global health concern. In New Zealand, one in three school entrant children are overweight or obese. Māori, the indigenous people, are disproportionately represented among the lowest economic group and have a disproportionately high incidence of obesity. This study explored Māori parents’ and caregivers’ views of the relative importance of weight to health, and the facilitators and barriers to a healthy weight in children aged 6 months to 5 years. Using a grounded qualitative method, in-depth information was collected in focus groups with mostly urban parents and other caregivers. A general inductive thematic analysis (content driven) was used. Insufficient money was an overriding food provisioning factor, but cost interacted with the lack of time, the number of people to feed, their appetites, and allergies. Other factors included ideologies about healthy food, cultural values relating to food selection, serving, and eating, nutrition literacy, availability of food, cooking skills, and lack of help. Childhood obesity was not a priority concern for participants, though they supported interventions providing education on how to grow vegetables, how to plan and cook cheaper meals. Holistic interventions to reduce the negative effects of the economic and social determinants on child health more broadly were recommended. MDPI 2019-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6566933/ /pubmed/31052332 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu11050994 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Morton, Susan M.
Cutfield, Wayne S.
The Complexity of Food Provisioning Decisions by Māori Caregivers to Ensure the Happiness and Health of Their Children
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu11050994
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