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- Ljungkrona-Falk, Lena, et al.
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In order to prevent child obesity: New tool helps Nurses to talk about healthier habits to parents
- 2010
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Ingår i: Special Issue: Abstracts of the 11th International Congress on Obesity, 11-15 July 2010, Stockholm, Sweden. - Chichester, England : Wiley-Blackwell. ; , s. 88-88
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Introduction: A new tool for nurses to communicate healthier habits to parents of children at 18 months and 3 years of age has been developed and implemented by a registered dietitian at the children’s health care centre (CHCC) in Skaraborg, Sweden. The tool contains questions and information about meal order, drinks, candy, snacks, fat and physical activity. Our aim was to describe the nurses’ experiences of the tool and supervision from the registered dietician at the CHCC. Methods: The tool was evaluated after 14 months in practice. In three focus groups 17 nurses participated. A structured interview guide was used and the interviews were transcribed verbatim. The transcripts were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Findings were triangulated by a questionnaire within all nurses in Skaraborg (n = 76). Results: The nurses described their experiences in terms of comparison with the previous tool, practicability, parent’s reactions and improvement. Using the previous tool the nurses felt uncertain when talking about healthier habits. With the new tool the nurses expressed that they felt more confident. Parents were also more engaged in the dialogue. The discussion regarding physical activity was not satisfactory and the question needed improvement. The questionnaire showed, 98% of the nurses wanted to continue with the tool, and 86% found the question about physical activity needed revision. Conclusion: This is a new approach to prevent child obesity. The tool simplified the communication with parents and with supervision from dietitian, it lead to a higher quality in promoting healthier habits at CHCC.
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- Ljungkrona-Falk, Lena, et al.
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Swedish nurses encounter barriers when promoting healthy habits in children.
- 2014
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Ingår i: Health promotion international. - Oxford : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1460-2245 .- 0957-4824. ; 29:4, s. 730-738
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To increase the understanding of difficulties in promoting healthy habits to parents, we explore barriers in health-care provision. The aim of this study is to describe nurses' perceived barriers when discussing with parents regarding healthy food habits, physical activity and their child's body weight. A mixed method approach was chosen. Nurses (n = 76) working at 29 different Child Health Care Centers' in an area in west Sweden were included in the study. Three focus group interviews were conducted and 17 nurses were selected according to maximum variation. Data were categorized and qualitative content analysis was the chosen analysis method. In the second method, data were obtained from a questionnaire distributed to all 76 nurses. The latent content was formulated into a theme: even with encouragement and support, the nurses perceive barriers of both an external and internal nature. The results identified four main barriers: experienced barriers in the workplace-internal and external; the nurse's own fear and uncertainty; perceived obstacles in nurse-parent interactions and modern society impedes parents' ability to promote healthy habits. The nurses' perceived barriers were confirmed by the results from 62 of the nurses who completed the questionnaire. Despite education and professional support, the health professionals perceived both external and internal barriers in promoting healthy habits to parents when implementing a new method of health promotion in primary care. Further qualitative studies are needed to gain deeper understanding of the perceived barriers when promoting healthy habits to parents.
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