Primary-Care Weight-Management Strategies: Parental Priorities and Preferences.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine parental perspectives/rankings of the most important weight-management clinical practices and to determine whether preferences/rankings differ when parents disagree that their child is overweight.

Methods

We performed mixed-methods analysis of a 32-question survey of parents of 2- to 18-year-old overweight children assessing parental agreement that their child is overweight, the single most important thing providers can do to improve weight status, ranking American Academy of Pediatrics-recommended clinical practices, and preferred follow-up interval. Four independent reviewers analyzed open-response data to identify qualitative themes/subthemes. Multivariable analyses examined parental rankings, preferred follow-up interval, and differences by agreement

SUBMITTER: Turer CB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4808480 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature