ArticlePublic health nutrition2017
Latino mothers' beliefs about child weight and family health.
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- Negative familial weight talk and weight bias internalization in a US sample of children and adolescents.Pediatric obesity · 2024Article
- Parent perceptions of school meals and how perceptions differ by race and ethnicity.Health affairs scholar · 2024Article
- Feeding and Activity Environments for Infants and Toddlers in Childcare Centers and Family Childcare Homes in Southeastern New England.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Diet and Physical Activity Behaviors of Families Receiving Maternal and Child Health Services: The Perspective of the Home Visitor.Journal of healthy eating and active living · 2022Article
- A qualitative study of cognitive, behavioral, and environmental influences on Hispanic mothers' early childhood feeding practices.Appetite · 2021Article
- Sleep duration, physical activity, and caloric intake are related to weight status in Mexican American children: a longitudinal analysis.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2021Article
- "I Feel Like Less of a Mom": Experiences of Weight Stigma by Association among Mothers of Children with Overweight and Obesity.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2021Article
- Body size preferences and food choice among mothers and children in Malawi.Maternal & child nutrition · 2020Article
- Temporal associations between circadian sleep and activity patterns in Mexican American children.Sleep health · 2019Article
- Latinx Immigrant Mothers' Perceived Self-Efficacy and Intentions Regarding Human Papillomavirus Vaccination of Their Daughters.Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's HealthArticle
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Abstract
objectiveThere is a need to address cultural beliefs and parenting practices regarding childhood obesity to design effective weight-control programmes for overweight/obese US Latino children. The purpose of the current study was to explore cultural beliefs about children's weight, understand parent perceptions on feeding their children, and explore barriers that interfere with a healthy lifestyle.
designFour focus groups were conducted in Spanish with forty-one Latino mothers of elementary school-age children from San Diego County, California between April and May 2011. Cultural viewpoints about overweight status among children and barriers to leading a healthy lifestyle were explored. Focus group discussions were analysed based on a priori and emergent themes.
resultsThree themes were identified: (i) mothers' cultural beliefs about health that are barriers to family health; (ii) mothers as primary caretakers of their family's health; and (iii) attitudes about targeting children's weight. Mothers acknowledged the idea that 'chubby is better' is a misperception, yet having a 'chubby' child was preferred and even accepted. Mothers described fatalistic beliefs that contradicted existing knowledge of chronic disease and daily demands of Western culture as barriers to practising healthy behaviours in the home as the family caretaker.
conclusionsThese findings may be used to inform more culturally appropriate research to address US Latino health. Increasing awareness of cultural beliefs and daily circumstance could help to address obesity more directly and thereby overcome some of the potential underlying barriers that might exist when involving the Latino immigrant families in obesity treatment and prevention.
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