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Use of a tool to determine perceived barriers to children's healthy eating and physical activity and relationships to health behaviors
- Source :
- Journal of pediatric nursing. 26(5)
- Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- This pilot investigation assesses whether barriers to children's healthy eating and physical activity reported by parents on a newly developed brief pediatric obesity screening and counseling tool are related to healthy eating and physical activity behaviors. The sample included parents of 115 Medicaid-enrolled children in a general pediatric clinic. Of 10 barriers, 7 were statistically associated with parent-reported behaviors with odds ratios (ORs) ranging from 0.6 to 9.4. Relationships remained significant when child characteristics were controlled in the analysis. Although additional testing is needed, the tool provides clinicians with an approach to identify barriers and behaviors for targeted counseling.
- Subjects :
- Male
Health Behavior
Physical activity
Child Behavior
Directive Counseling
Healthy eating
Pilot Projects
Motor Activity
Pediatrics
Article
Developmental psychology
Medicine
Humans
Mass Screening
Obesity
Parent-Child Relations
Child
Mass screening
Obesity screening
business.industry
Odds ratio
medicine.disease
Diet
Child, Preschool
Female
Health behavior
business
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15328449
- Volume :
- 26
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of pediatric nursing
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....214887c4984d34d16bed1acb56ce000a