What Are the Barriers at Home and School to Healthy Eating?: Overweight/Obese Child and Parent Perspectives.
Hee Soon Kim, Jiyoung Park, Yumi Ma and 1 others
PMID 30958391WHAT IT FOUND
Overweight and obese children and their parents described home and school barriers to healthy eating: parents’ own food preferences, inconsistent caregiving, rushed meals, cramped school dining, and nutrition education that felt boring and impractical.
These are perceptions, not tested effects.
Key findings
01Parents reported that their own food preferences and inconsistent rules with other caregivers made healthy eating at home harder.
02Working parents, but not housewives, reported pushing children to eat quickly and using convenience foods.
03School barriers included rushed breakfast because of time, cramped dining space, variable teacher attitudes, ineffective nutrition education, and easy access to unhealthy food near school.
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What it does not show
The participants came from a limited metropolitan area, so the themes may not apply to other regions, countries, or families outside the health coaching program. Only children and parents were interviewed, so teachers and policymakers were not asked about the same barriers. The study explored perceived barriers through focus groups; it did not test an intervention or measure changes in eating or weight.
Declared interests
The authors declared no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the themes as evidence that fixing school meals, nutrition education, or parent food preferences reduces obesity. The study asked children and parents to describe perceived barriers and did not test any intervention.