Download or read book The Influence of Parenting Strategies on Childhood Obesity in Latinos written by Mohsinah Usmani and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood obesity continues to be a growing epidemic in the United States, particularly among minority populations. The underlying causes of this increasing trend are complex and include personal, behavioral, and environmental factors. Research indicates that parental influences play an instrumental role in shaping children’s dietary and activity-related behaviors. However, most of the studies conducted on parenting strategies and childhood obesity have focused on Caucasian families; thus research gaps exist in examining parenting strategies among minorities such as Latinos. Therefore, a cross-sectional study was conducted on 100 mother-child dyads in Memphis, TN, to understand the relationship between parenting strategies and childhood obesity in Latinos. A validated, culturally appropriate scale was administered to mothers, and children’s BMI was physically measured. Findings did not indicate significant relationships but give insight on future directions for research. .
Download or read book Parental Influence on Childhood Obesity Among Hispanics Latinos written by Brenda Pena and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood obesity is a continuously growing issue in the United States. However, Hispanics and Latinos are among the most affected population. The increase in obesity among Hispanic/Latino children also raises concern as it can lead to the increase of various health disparities that are associated with obesity. This systematic literature review aims to investigate parental influence on child weight status among Hispanic/Latino families. This review examines research studies that analyzes Hispanic/Latino food parenting practices and parental feeding styles through surveys, interviews, focus groups, and intervention programs to determine how and to what extent parents influence the weight status of their children. The literature review findings indicate that Hispanic/Latino parents play a big role in influencing the weight status of their children depending on the feeding styles and practices that they utilize. Additionally, this systematic literature review outlines implications for the need to develop and implement culturally appropriate community-based obesity interventions on parental feeding styles and food practices, which in turn may aid in decreasing childhood obesity among Hispanics and Latinos.
Download or read book Advances in Communication Research to Reduce Childhood Obesity written by Jerome D. Williams and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rates of childhood obesity are alarmingly high and increasing each year. Studies have shown that obese children are more likely to become obese adults and are likely to suffer with numerous health consequences like coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, and Type II diabetes, among others. Studies also indicate that television viewing and exposure to advertising for food products influences children's attitudes toward, food preferences and food purchase requests for foods with low nutritional value. It is important to better understand the role of media in childhood obesity and to learn how media may be used to address this issue in a positive way. This book focuses on communication and media research that can have an impact on reducing childhood obesity. Emphasis is placed on topics related to how the media communicate health-related messages about food, nutrition and diet that influence childhood obesity. Particular emphasis is on the new media, given the fact that media now have more central roles in socializing today’s children and youth than ever before. Advertising and marketing messages reach young consumers through a variety of vehicles – broadcast and cable television, radio, magazines, computers through the Internet, music, cell phones – and in many different venues – homes, schools, child-care settings, grocery stores, shopping malls, theaters, sporting events, and even airports. In addition, given the disparity in obesity rates between children of color and the general population, special attention is given to research on media targeting these populations.
Download or read book The Influence of Parenting and Acculturative Stress on Parental Feeding Style and Pediatric Obesity for Latino Families written by Genevieve A. Maliszewski and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pediatric obesity has become an epidemic in the United States. Previous research has shown that parenting factors related to stress and parental feeding style impact child BMI, and that Latino families are especially at risk for pediatric obesity and stress. The goal of the current study was to evaluate the effects of parenting and acculturative stress on the parental feeding styles of Latino parents. Parental feeding styles were then examined in relation to child BMI. Latino parents of children between the ages of 2 and 8 (N = 124) completed a survey on parenting stress, parental feeding styles, parent BMI, and demographics. Child BMI scores were collected as outcome variables. Children were predominantly male (52.4%), about 6 years old (M age in months = 59.02, SD = 23.82), and had an average BMI z-score of 0.77 (SD = 1.14). There were several important significant results found by the current study. A demanding parental feeding style was associated with lower child BMI zscores, r = -.179, p
Download or read book Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle and Preventing Obesity for Latino Children Through a Parent Education Program written by Daisy Torres and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Obesity is a disease that has impacted children on a national level. Childhood obesity is affecting a multitude of children with some of the highest numbers concentrated among Latinos. It is imperative to address the issue of childhood obesity in a collaborative approach among social workers, health care professionals, policy makers, and the family as a whole. There is a need to create an educational/prevention childhood obesity program that is culturally sensitive and family-based to engage children and parents mutually and decrease the high rates of childhood obesity. The goal of this project was to write a grant proposal and identify a funding source that would establish a childhood obesity educational/prevention program targeted at children and parents in a Latino community. Participants would be provided with a series of educational courses directing attention to the health and psychological consequences of obesity, as well as proper nutrition and levels of physical activity. The program would take place at Holland Middle School in the Baldwin Park Unified School District. The program would be carried out by social workers, school nurses, a nutritionist, and a physical education teacher in order for children and parents to learn how to attain and maintain healthy and active practices as well as how to seek and utilize services. The actual submission of the proposal was not a requirement for this project.
Download or read book Familial and Individual Predictors of Obesity and Insulin Resistance in Hispanic Children written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surprisingly rapid rise in the prevalence of childhood obesity has closely preceded an upsurge in the incidence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in youth, with the most dramatic increases occurring among minority groups. Although the prevalence of obesity and T2D is greater in Hispanics, studies of the nutrition and physical environments have been primarily conducted among non-Hispanic whites. Therefore, we used the social-ecological model as a framework to evaluate the individual and familial predictors of Hispanic pediatric obesity and risk for T2D focusing on the influence of the home environment. Anthropometrics and cardiovascular fitness (PACER) were measured and blood samples were collected to assess HOMAIR, a proxy measure of insulin resistance (IR), in 187 Hispanic children (aged 10 to 14 years). A food frequency questionnaire and physical activity (PA) recall were administered to children and parents reported on family socio-demographics and home environment. It was found that 53% of the children were overweight or obese. Children's diet quality as measured by the Healthy Eating Index was low indicating a lack of adherence to dietary guidelines. The home food availability, parental diet and family eating habits were found to be associated with children's diet quality. Nonetheless, children's overall diet quality was not associated with weight status as hypothesized. Results of these investigations guided subsequent analysis of children's diet and PA in relation to metabolic health. Overweight or obese children had lower cardiovascular fitness (CVF) along with higher HOMAIR when compared to healthy weight children. These relationships were influenced by children's diet and PA, which in turn were shaped by the home environment together with parental eating and PA habits. High intakes of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) and low PA had a negative association on children's weight status and CVF, and subsequent risk for T2D. Interventions aimed at decreasing SSB consumption and increasing PA of Hispanic children seems warranted, where families are educated on the benefits of having a healthier home environment. The diet, PA and CVF of Hispanic children could improve and the prevalence of childhood obesity could possibly be reduced while having a positive impact on the risk for T2D.
Download or read book Parenting Feeding Styles Among Latina and African American Mothers written by Karina Silva Garcia and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Association of Parent Acculturation with Childhood Obesity and Dietary Behaviors Among a Predominately Mexican American Sample written by Monica Iolanda Morello and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of parent acculturation on child fruit and vegetable consumption and obesity, as measured by BMI, among Mexican American and other Hispanic families. Mexican Americans make up the largest sub-group of Hispanics in the U.S. and account for a large proportion of the prevalence of overweight and obesity. There is a need to understand the influences of acculturation among Mexican American and other Hispanic families in order to reduce and prevent childhood obesity among this population in the U.S. Secondary baseline data from a randomized controlled trial was analyzed for this study. The study took place in San Diego County, California. Participants consisted of a total of 541 families with a child between the ages of 5 and 8 years old who spoke English or Spanish and lived within up to three miles from a local community recreation center. Only Mexican American or other Hispanic individuals were included in the present study, yielding a final sample size of 250 participants. Height and weight measurements were collected to calculate the age- and sex-specific BMI for each child and parent. Self-administered surveys were given to parents and included questions on basic demographics, acculturation, and child fruit and vegetable consumption. Over half (56.4%) of the parents were born in Mexico; 86.8% of the children were born in the U.S. Parent acculturation scores ranged from 4 to 32 with a mean of 16.41 (SD=9.25); child acculturation scores ranged from 1 to 5 with a mean of 3.53 (SD=0.81). The bivariate results indicated that the outcome variable of child BMI z score was related to the main predictor variable of parent acculturation at the 0.20 significance level. At the same significance level, the outcome variable of child fruit consumption was associated with parent acculturation (p=0.01). After controlling for parent acculturation and parent birth place, child BMI z score remained significantly related to parent BMI (p
Download or read book Parenting Matters written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States.
Download or read book Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Policies written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood obesity is a serious health problem that has adverse and long-lasting consequences for individuals, families, and communities. The magnitude of the problem has increased dramatically during the last three decades and, despite some indications of a plateau in this growth, the numbers remain stubbornly high. Efforts to prevent childhood obesity to date have focused largely on school-aged children, with relatively little attention to children under age 5. However, there is a growing awareness that efforts to prevent childhood obesity must begin before children ever enter the school system. Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Policies reviews factors related to overweight and obese children from birth to age 5, with a focus on nutrition, physical activity, and sedentary behavior, and recommends policies that can alter children's environments to promote the maintenance of healthy weight. Because the first years of life are important to health and well-being throughout the life span, preventing obesity in infants and young children can contribute to reversing the epidemic of obesity in children and adults. The book recommends that health care providers make parents aware of their child's excess weight early. It also suggests that parents and child care providers keep children active throughout the day, provide them with healthy diets, limit screen time, and ensure children get adequate sleep. In addition to providing comprehensive solutions to tackle the problem of obesity in infants and young children, Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Policies identifies potential actions that could be taken to implement those recommendations. The recommendations can inform the decisions of state and local child care regulators, child care providers, health care providers, directors of federal and local child care and nutrition programs, and government officials at all levels.
Download or read book Gordito Doesn t Mean Healthy written by Claudia Gonzalez and published by . This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional Latino culture believes ¿a fat baby is a healthy baby.¿ This cultural belief is resulting in an obesity epidemic in the Latino community among both children and adults. This book offers info., strategies, and tools to prevent and manage obesity with a complete nutrition plan that is adapted to the cultural and culinary customs of the Hispanic population. Includes essential info. about; age-appropriate menus and portions; symptoms and warning signs that your child could be overweight; health risks for overweight children; the effects of abandoning traditional Latino foods; genetic factors influencing weight gain and type 2 diabetes develop. in Latino children; what fats, proteins, carbohydrates, vit., and minerals do for your child; and the Latino Food Pyramid.
Download or read book Childhood Obesity written by Sevil Ari Yuca and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to provide readers with a general as well as an advanced overview of the key trends in childhood obesity. Obesity is an illness that occurs due to a combination of genetic, environmental, psychosocial, metabolic and hormonal factors. The prevalence of obesity has shown a great rise both in adults and children in the last 30 years. It is known that one third of children who are obese in childhood and 80% of adolescents who are obese in their adolescent years continue to be obese later in life. Obesity is an important risk factor in serious illnesses such as heart disease, hyperlipidemia, hyperinsulinemia, hypertension and early atherosclerosis.
Download or read book Cost Effective Analysis of Intervention Strategies to Prevent Childhood Obesity Among Latino Children written by Antonio Valle Ruiz De Esparza and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Families Food and Parenting written by Lori A. Francis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the many roles of families in their members’ food access, preferences, and consumption. It provides an overview of factors – from micro- to macro-levels – that have been linked to food insecurity and discusses policy approaches to reducing food insecurity and hunger. In addition, it addresses the links between food insecurity and overweight and obesity. The book describes changes in the U.S. food environment that may explain increases in obesity during recent decades. It explores relationships between parenting practices and the development of eating behaviors in children, highlighting the importance of family mealtimes in healthful eating. The volume provides an overview of efforts to prevent or reduce obesity in children, with attention to minority populations and discusses research findings on targets for obesity prevention, including a focus on fathers as change agents who play a crucial, yet understudied, role in food parenting. The book acknowledges that with the current obesigenic environment in the United States and elsewhere around the world, additional and innovative efforts are needed to foster healthful eating behavior and orientations toward food in childhood and in families. This book is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, clinicians, professionals, and graduate students in developmental psychology, family studies, public health as well as numerous interrelated disciplines, including sociology, demography, social work, prevention science, educational policy, political science, and economics.
Download or read book Social Character in a Mexican Village written by Erich Fromm and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] groundbreaking study combining psychoanalytical and anthropological methods to analyse the impact of industrialization on ‘peasants.’” —Booknews The renowned psychoanalyst Erich Fromm analyzed more than just general society and societal processes. Together with Michael Maccoby, he completed a study of Mexican villagers to empirically illustrate how historical, economic, and social requirements determine behavior. Social Character in a Mexican Village does much more than introduce a new approach to the analysis of social phenomena. It throws new light on one of the world’s most pressing problems, the impact of the industrialized world on the traditional character of the laboring class. Unanimously, the book is an outstanding introduction to Fromm’s concept of social character. “Fromm and Maccoby have written a study of crucial importance.” —Richard J. Barnet, Institute for Policy Studies
Download or read book Family Functioning Parenting Strategies and Disordered Eating Among Hispanic Youth written by Dina Ferranti and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disordered eating (DE) is a major public health concern related to both clinical eating disorders and obesity. DE encompasses various subclinical, yet maladaptive eating behaviors that include dieting, binge eating, and/or extreme weight control behaviors (i.e. self-induced vomiting, laxatives). Hispanic youth appear to be especially vulnerable to DE in comparison to other ethnic groups. However, to date there has been little research focused on Hispanic youth and DE, particularly those in middle childhood (8-11 years). The purpose of this study was to test a theoretical model examining family level variables, parenting strategies for eating and physical activity (PEAS) and family functioning, and their relationships with DE among Hispanic youth, and to understand the role of gender in moderating these relationships. A cross-sectional design was used for a secondary analysis of data from the Study of Latino Youth (SOL Youth), a national, population-based study of Hispanic youth from the Bronx, Chicago, Miami, and San Diego. The subsample for the current study was limited to youth participants 8-11 years (n=673) and their parents (n=569). PEAS and family functioning were independent variables, and DE, specifically dieting and binge eating, were dependent variables. Preliminary analyses explored various individual and sociocultural variables as potential covariates. Of those, BMI, years in U.S., and study site were included in theoretical model testing. Model testing was conducted with one-child per family (n=569) using structural equation modeling. Weak support for some hypotheses were demonstrated for youth variables in correlational analyses. However, the study hypotheses were generally not supported, perhaps due to poor fit of the measurement models, particularly for the youth model. Thus, these measurement issues may have prevented an understanding of the theoretical relationship between family level variables and DE. Further research is needed to refine the measures of key study variables (family functioning and PEAS) used in the current study to improve their developmental and cultural fit for Hispanic youth and their parents.Supplemental analyses were conducted to further explore potential study site differences, gender differences, and/or evidence of validity of measures between youth and parent family level variables, BMI, and DE. Of interest, supplemental analyses indicated that those youth engaging in dieting and/or binge eating had a higher BMI than those youth who did not engage in these behaviors. Participants in the study reported high rates of both dieting and binge eating. This suggests that future intervention development surrounding DE among Hispanic youth is necessary for prevention and treatment of DE and its negative health consequences. Specific nursing research and practice implications are presented in the discussion.
Download or read book Handbook of Immigrant Health written by Sana Loue and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first comprehensive cross-disciplinary work to examine the current health situation of our immigrants, successfully integrating the vast literature of diverse fields -- epidemiology, health services research, anthropology, law, medicine, social work, health promotion, and bioethics -- to explore the richness and diversity of the immigrant population from a culturally-sensitive perspective. This unequalled resource examines methodological issues, issues in clinical care and research, health and disease in specific immigrant populations, patterns of specific diseases in immigrant groups in the US, and conclusive insight towards the future. Complete with 73 illustrations, this singular book is the blueprint for where we must go in the future.
