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- Skantze, Caroline, Doktorand, 1967-, et al.
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Parents’ Experiences of Communication With School Nurses About Their Child's Weight Development in Sweden
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of School Nursing. - Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications Inc.. - 1059-8405 .- 1546-8364.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study aimed to describe parents’ experiences of communication with school nurses concerning the growth data and weight development of their children aged 8 and 10 years old in Sweden. Eighteen interviews with parents were conducted and analyzed through qualitative content analysis. The result showed a need for improved dialogue where the parents viewed the health visit's purpose as unclear and lacked feedback. The parents desired access to their child's growth data and described the need for an improved channel for receiving information. The parents moreover experienced the lack of a child-centered perspective, described the child's context as not in focus, and desired collaboration around their child. This study shows the need for the development of evidence-based methods for communicating growth data and weight development between School Health Service (SHS) and parents, as well as the need for a reformed SHS perspective towards parents and children.
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- Skantze, Caroline, Doktorand, 1967-, et al.
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School nurses' experience of communicating growth data and weight development to parents of children 8 and 10 years of age
- 2023
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Ingår i: BMC Public Health. - London : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1471-2458. ; 23:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Introduction The prevalence of overweight and obesity among children has risen sharply during recent decades. School nurses are key health professionals in interventions targeting the early onset of overweight and obesity during childhood. Understanding how school nurses experience communication with parents concerning their child & PRIME;s growth and weight development are essential. The aim of the study is to describe school nurses' experience of communicating growth data and weight development to parents of school children ages 8 and 10 years.Method The design of the study is a descriptive, qualitative design with purposive and snowball sampling. Sixteen interviews with school nurses were conducted and analysed with qualitative content analysis.ResultThe analysis resulted in three main categories including subcategories. In Challenges in the professional role, the school nurses expressed a lack of knowledge, skills and tools in communication, described a perception of parental responsibility and stated using several different approaches in communicating growth data and weight development to parents. In Sustainable communication with parents, the school nurses described the value of creating a dialogue, a supportive approach to the parents, and the building of a relation between them and the parents as essential. In Barriers in communicating the child & PRIME;s weight, the school nurses described the experience of stigma concerning the subject of overweight and obesity, increased concern when they detected underweight as well as an ambivalence towards measuring weight.Conclusion The study highlights an educational challenge concerning the need for training, skills, and strategies for communication with parents. A variety of ways in school nurses' communication with parents were identified in the present study and this shows an inconsistency in how School health services was offered and a need for the development of evidence-based procedures for communicating growth data and weight development to parents.
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