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Diet and physical activity changes among low-income families: perspectives of mothers and their children

Purpose: The current study explored how mothers and their children influence each other’s diet and physical activity. Methods: We conducted semi-structured interviews with women with diabetes and their children (N = 18) from eight low-income families. Results: Two approaches to changes emerged: coll...

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Autores principales: Zhen-Duan, Jenny, Engebretsen, Bery, Laroche, Helena H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6720015/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31452465
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2019.1658700
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description Purpose: The current study explored how mothers and their children influence each other’s diet and physical activity. Methods: We conducted semi-structured interviews with women with diabetes and their children (N = 18) from eight low-income families. Results: Two approaches to changes emerged: collaborative and non-collaborative. Families using collaborative approaches believed they could sustain positive changes through accepting family changes, encouragement, abstaining from buying certain foods, modelling and compromise. Within families using non-collaborative approaches, some challenges included using more individualistic approaches and poor communication. Lack of information and resource constraints challenged all families. Conclusion: Interventions should reinforce family collaborative approaches and teach skills for families to work together towards a healthier lifestyle.
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spelling pubmed-67200152019-09-06 Diet and physical activity changes among low-income families: perspectives of mothers and their children Zhen-Duan, Jenny Engebretsen, Bery Laroche, Helena H. Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being Empirical Studies Purpose: The current study explored how mothers and their children influence each other’s diet and physical activity. Methods: We conducted semi-structured interviews with women with diabetes and their children (N = 18) from eight low-income families. Results: Two approaches to changes emerged: collaborative and non-collaborative. Families using collaborative approaches believed they could sustain positive changes through accepting family changes, encouragement, abstaining from buying certain foods, modelling and compromise. Within families using non-collaborative approaches, some challenges included using more individualistic approaches and poor communication. Lack of information and resource constraints challenged all families. Conclusion: Interventions should reinforce family collaborative approaches and teach skills for families to work together towards a healthier lifestyle. Taylor & Francis 2019-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6720015/ /pubmed/31452465 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2019.1658700 Text en © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full_unstemmed Diet and physical activity changes among low-income families: perspectives of mothers and their children
title_short Diet and physical activity changes among low-income families: perspectives of mothers and their children
title_sort diet and physical activity changes among low-income families: perspectives of mothers and their children
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6720015/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31452465
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2019.1658700
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