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Caregivers’ perceptions, challenges and service needs related to tackling childhood overweight and obesity: a qualitative study in three districts of Shanghai, China

BACKGROUND: Childhood overweight and obesity (OWO) has become a major public concern worldwide including in Shanghai, one of the most developed areas of China. Understanding perceptions and challenges of tackling childhood OWO among caregivers of children is critical to provide services in need. MET...

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Autores principales: Wu, Yanting, Ma, Xiaoying, Fraser, William D., Li, Mu, Wang, Wei, Huang, Hefeng, Landry, Myriam, Hao, Yanhui, Liu, Han, Semenic, Sonia, Zhang, Yan, Wang, Haiqin, Zhang, Jingya, Yu, Jiale, La, Xuena, Zhang, Congcong, Marc, Isabelle, Jiang, Hong
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8061052/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33882878
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10744-6
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author Wu, Yanting
Ma, Xiaoying
Fraser, William D.
Li, Mu
Wang, Wei
Huang, Hefeng
Landry, Myriam
Hao, Yanhui
Liu, Han
Semenic, Sonia
Zhang, Yan
Wang, Haiqin
Zhang, Jingya
Yu, Jiale
La, Xuena
Zhang, Congcong
Marc, Isabelle
Jiang, Hong
author_facet Wu, Yanting
Ma, Xiaoying
Fraser, William D.
Li, Mu
Wang, Wei
Huang, Hefeng
Landry, Myriam
Hao, Yanhui
Liu, Han
Semenic, Sonia
Zhang, Yan
Wang, Haiqin
Zhang, Jingya
Yu, Jiale
La, Xuena
Zhang, Congcong
Marc, Isabelle
Jiang, Hong
author_sort Wu, Yanting
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description BACKGROUND: Childhood overweight and obesity (OWO) has become a major public concern worldwide including in Shanghai, one of the most developed areas of China. Understanding perceptions and challenges of tackling childhood OWO among caregivers of children is critical to provide services in need. METHODS: A qualitative descriptive study including in-depth interviews with seven parents and six focus group discussions with a total of 32 parents or grandparents of children zero to 6 years of age. Participants lived in three districts of Shanghai and indexed children included both those with OWO or non-OWO children. Data were analyzed using qualitative thematic analysis. RESULTS: Caregivers tended to underestimate children’s weight status, and to regard chubby children as a sign of good parental care. Some caregivers even suggested that there were positive effects of childhood overweight. Caregivers identified a number of challenges to prevention of OWO in children, including difficulties in controlling dietary intake or increasing children’s physical activities; discordant views between parents and grandparents, and barriers to accessing professional guidance. Caregivers desired more detailed advice regarding children’s nutrition intake and physical activity, and preferred online approaches. CONCLUSIONS: Misconceptions regarding childhood overweight were found in caregivers of children in Shanghai. Professional guidance on childhood weight control for caregivers is desired via digital applications such as mobile phone applications and social media.
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spelling pubmed-80610522021-04-22 Caregivers’ perceptions, challenges and service needs related to tackling childhood overweight and obesity: a qualitative study in three districts of Shanghai, China Wu, Yanting Ma, Xiaoying Fraser, William D. Li, Mu Wang, Wei Huang, Hefeng Landry, Myriam Hao, Yanhui Liu, Han Semenic, Sonia Zhang, Yan Wang, Haiqin Zhang, Jingya Yu, Jiale La, Xuena Zhang, Congcong Marc, Isabelle Jiang, Hong BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Childhood overweight and obesity (OWO) has become a major public concern worldwide including in Shanghai, one of the most developed areas of China. Understanding perceptions and challenges of tackling childhood OWO among caregivers of children is critical to provide services in need. METHODS: A qualitative descriptive study including in-depth interviews with seven parents and six focus group discussions with a total of 32 parents or grandparents of children zero to 6 years of age. Participants lived in three districts of Shanghai and indexed children included both those with OWO or non-OWO children. Data were analyzed using qualitative thematic analysis. RESULTS: Caregivers tended to underestimate children’s weight status, and to regard chubby children as a sign of good parental care. Some caregivers even suggested that there were positive effects of childhood overweight. Caregivers identified a number of challenges to prevention of OWO in children, including difficulties in controlling dietary intake or increasing children’s physical activities; discordant views between parents and grandparents, and barriers to accessing professional guidance. Caregivers desired more detailed advice regarding children’s nutrition intake and physical activity, and preferred online approaches. CONCLUSIONS: Misconceptions regarding childhood overweight were found in caregivers of children in Shanghai. Professional guidance on childhood weight control for caregivers is desired via digital applications such as mobile phone applications and social media. BioMed Central 2021-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8061052/ /pubmed/33882878 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10744-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Wu, Yanting
Ma, Xiaoying
Fraser, William D.
Li, Mu
Wang, Wei
Huang, Hefeng
Landry, Myriam
Hao, Yanhui
Liu, Han
Semenic, Sonia
Zhang, Yan
Wang, Haiqin
Zhang, Jingya
Yu, Jiale
La, Xuena
Zhang, Congcong
Marc, Isabelle
Jiang, Hong
Caregivers’ perceptions, challenges and service needs related to tackling childhood overweight and obesity: a qualitative study in three districts of Shanghai, China
title Caregivers’ perceptions, challenges and service needs related to tackling childhood overweight and obesity: a qualitative study in three districts of Shanghai, China
title_full Caregivers’ perceptions, challenges and service needs related to tackling childhood overweight and obesity: a qualitative study in three districts of Shanghai, China
title_fullStr Caregivers’ perceptions, challenges and service needs related to tackling childhood overweight and obesity: a qualitative study in three districts of Shanghai, China
title_full_unstemmed Caregivers’ perceptions, challenges and service needs related to tackling childhood overweight and obesity: a qualitative study in three districts of Shanghai, China
title_short Caregivers’ perceptions, challenges and service needs related to tackling childhood overweight and obesity: a qualitative study in three districts of Shanghai, China
title_sort caregivers’ perceptions, challenges and service needs related to tackling childhood overweight and obesity: a qualitative study in three districts of shanghai, china
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8061052/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33882878
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10744-6
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