The good, the bad, and the blameless in parenting: a thematic analysis of discussions of childhood obesity on an internet forum.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Childhood obesity is affecting an increasing percentage of families globally. For families, obesity is often a tense issue, not least because of the negative stigma and cultural perceptions associated with it. Discussions around childhood obesity do not take place only at home or in healthcare, but increasingly on social media, such as Internet discussion forums. Our aim was to analyse how childhood obesity is discussed on a Finnish online discussion forum by parents of children with obesity and other commenters.

Method

We gathered and analysed 16 discussion threads on childhood obesity taken from a Finnish Internet discussion forum, vauva.fi, between 2015 and 2021 (a total of 331 posts). For the analysis, we chose threads where the parents of a child with obesity

SUBMITTER: Koivumaki T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9993749 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature