- Title
- Nutrition interventions for prevention and management of childhood obesity: what do parents want from an eHealth program?
- Creator
- Burrows, Tracy; Hutchesson, Melinda; Chai, Li Kheng; Rollo, Megan; Skinner, Geoff; Collins, Clare
- Relation
- Nutrients Vol. 7, Issue 12, p. 10469-10479
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu7125546
- Publisher
- MDPIAG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- With the growth of Internet technologies, offering interventions for child and family weight management in an online format may address barriers to accessing services. This study aimed to investigate (i) whether an eHealth family healthy lifestyle program would be of interest to parents; and (ii) preferences and/or expectations for program components and features. Parents of children aged four to 18 years were recruited through social media and completed an online survey (54 items) including closed and open-ended questions. Responses were collated using descriptive statistics and thematic analysis. Seventy-five participants were included (92% mothers, mean age 39.1 ± 8.6 years, mean BMI 27.6 ± 6.3 kg/m²). The index child had a mean age of 11 ± 6.2 years with 24% overweight/obese. The majority of parents (90.3%) reported interest in an online program, with preference expressed for a non-structured program to allow flexibility users to log-on and off as desired. Parents wanted a program that was easy to use, practical, engaging, endorsed by a reputable source, and able to provide individual tailoring and for their children to be directly involved. The current study supports the need for online delivery of a healthy lifestyle program that targets greater parental concerns of diet rather than child weight.
- Subject
- healthy lifestyle program; families; online; Internet; eHealth; childhood obesity
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1327563
- Identifier
- uon:25687
- Identifier
- ISSN:2072-6643
- Rights
- This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (CC BY 4.0).
- Language
- eng
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