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20147505

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-3-12
pubmed:abstractText
Epidemiologic and qualitative studies have found that most mothers with overweight preschool children do not think their children are overweight. This might present a challenge for clinicians who wish to address obesity in young children. To understand mothers' perceptions of their overweight children's weight, we conducted semistructured interviews with 21 mothers of overweight preschool children enrolled in Kentucky's Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Although these mothers did not label their children as overweight, they were worried about children's weight, particularly as it related to their emotional well-being. These worries about obesity were reflected in three central tensions that shaped the way mothers perceived their children's weight and informed maternal feeding strategies: (a) nature vs. nurture, (b) medical authority vs. lived experience, and (c) relieving immediate stress vs. preventing long-term consequences. Acknowledging mothers' concerns and tensions might help clinicians communicate more effectively with them about obesity.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
T
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1049-7323
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
20
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
465-78
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
How low-income mothers with overweight preschool children make sense of obesity.
pubmed:affiliation
Center for Obesity Research and Education, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19140, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.