ArticleJournal of obesity2014
Barriers to lose weight from the perspective of children with overweight/obesity and their parents: a sociocultural approach.
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- Pooled it
- Interventions to Prevent Obesity in Mexican Children and Adolescents: Systematic Review.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2022Pooled it
- Factors influencing obesogenic behaviours of adolescent girls and women in low- and middle-income countries: A qualitative evidence synthesis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Pooled it
- Effects of short-term supervised exercise training on liver fat in adolescents with obesity: a randomized controlled trial.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2023Trial
- The Influence of Parents' Nutritional Education Program on Their Infants' Metabolic Health.Nutrients · 2022Trial
- "Sacbe", a Comprehensive Intervention to Decrease Body Mass Index in Children with Adiposity: A Pilot Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Trial
- Actual Body Weight and the Parent's Perspective of Child's Body Weight Among Canadian First Nations Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Parental weight perception and non-responsive feeding practices in Chinese preschoolers: a prospective longitudinal study.European journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Title: A Qualitative Systematic Review of Parental Perceptions, Motivators, and Barriers to Management of Childhood Obesity.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2024Article
- Adolescent's self-reported weight and its association with media impact on decision to lose weight and body thinness perception.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Engaging Intergenerational Hispanics/Latinos to Examine Factors Influencing Childhood Obesity Using the PRECEDE-PROCEED Model.Maternal and child health journal · 2019Article
- Understanding paediatric patients' attitudes toward obesity and expectations prior to entering a weight management program.Paediatrics & child health · 2019Article
- Use of Appreciative Inquiry To Engage Parents as Codesigners of a Weight Management Intervention for Adolescents.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2017Article
- Actual Body Weight and the Parent's Perspective of Child's Body Weight among Rural Canadian Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2016Article
- The programming of cardiovascular disease.Journal of developmental origins of health and disease · 2015Review
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
introductionThere are not enough studies about the barriers to lose weight from the perspective of children and their parents.
methodsChildren and adolescents diagnosed with overweight/obesity in the Department of Endocrinology and their parents were invited to participate in a series of focus group discussions (FGD). Twenty-nine children 10-16 years old and 22 parents participated in 7 focus groups; 2 mothers and 2 adolescents participated in depth interviews. All interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed through grounded theory.
resultsParents went to the hospital only when their children presented any obesity complication; for them, overweight was not a health problem. Parents referred to lack of time to supervise about a healthy diet and exercise; besides, the same parents, relatives, friends, and the mass media encourage the consumption of junk food. Children accepted eating a lot, not doing exercise, skipping meals, and not understanding overweight consequences. Both, parents and children, demanded support to do the time recommended for exercise inside the schools. They also suggested getting information from schools and mass media (TV) about overweight consequences, exercise, and healthy food by health workers; they recommended prohibiting announcements about junk food and its sale.
conclusionsThe barriers detected were lack of perception of being overweight, its identification as a disease and its consequences, lack of time to supervise a healthy lifestyle, and a big social influence to eat junk food.
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