ArticlePublic health nutrition2018
'A little bit offended and slightly patronised': parents' experiences of National Child Measurement Programme feedback.
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- Communication of children's weight status: what is effective and what are the children's and parents' experiences and preferences? A mixed methods systematic review.BMC public health · 2020Pooled it
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- Parents' Responses and Reactions to the National Childhood Measurement Programme in a Contemporary Sample of British Children: A Mixed-Method Study.Journal of obesity · 2025Article
- An emotionally loaded subject - parents experiences when CHC-nurses introduce a conversation related to their child being overweight.BMC public health · 2024Article
- The acceptability of evidence-informed guidance for parents in talking to their children about weight.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Parents' recalled experiences of the child centred health dialogue in children with overweight: a qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Challenges and opportunities of remote public involvement and community engagement during a pandemic: refining the MapMe childhood healthy weight intervention.Perspectives in public health · 2022Article
- Does adjusting for biological maturity when calculating child weight status improve the accuracy of predicting future health risk?BMC public health · 2021Article
- Delivery of the National Child Measurement Programme in England.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- Is child weight status correctly reported to parents? Cross-sectional analysis of National Child Measurement Programme data using ethnic-specific BMI adjustments.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo develop a descriptive account of parents' experiences of written feedback from the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP), based on primary data collected from semi-structured focus groups.
designFour focus groups were held with a purposive sample of parents who had recently received written weight feedback from the NCMP in one local authority in England. Thematic data analysis was undertaken to develop a narrative of emergent themes regarding parents' experiences and the social influences shaping this.Setting/SubjectsThe population of interest was parents of 4- and 5-year-olds who had recently received written feedback from the NCMP. Eighteen parents participated and represented the full spectrum of categories provided in NCMP feedback (under-, healthy, over- and very overweight).
resultsParticipants often rejected overweight feedback as lacking in credibility and considered NCMP communication to be targeting parents other than themselves. Family and peers collaborated in the dismissal of overweight feedback, further legitimising participants' decision to disregard their child's overweight categorisation.
conclusionsOur study provides an insight into parents' experiences of NCMP feedback, including how they relate to and understand that experience within a social context. By doing so, it makes a unique contribution to the existing body of evidence. Recommendations for practice based on the findings include further efforts to raise parents' and communities' awareness of childhood obesity, risks associated with childhood excess weight and obesity prevalence as a mainstream issue.
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