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Volume 4, Issue 3 (Suppl) Health Care: Current Reviews
ISSN: 2375-4273 HCCR, an open access journal
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Primary Care Congress 2016
September 19-20, 2016
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September 19-20, 2016 Phoenix, USA
2nd Annual Congress and Medicare Expo on
Primary Care & General Pediatrics
Child care providers’ perceptions of children’s lifestyles and risk factors for obesity: A focus group study
Chiyori Haga
Okayama University, Japan
The lifestyles of insufficient sleep and skipping breakfast have been pointed out as the problems on childhood lifestyle since 2008.
If the nurses have not had health guidance for parents in spite of knowing these associations, they would not grasp the recent
situation on childhood lifestyles. This suggests that the nurses who will have a health guidance for childhood should interview not only
parents, but also child care providers. Therefore, this study attempts to understand child care providers’ perceptions of remarkable
children’s lifestyles and discusses potentially successful strategies of cooperation among child care providers, parents, and health
professionals for health promotion and the prevention of obesity in preschool children. We conducted 6 focus group discussions
consisting of 34 child care providers employed by private and public child care centers, and a public kindergarten in Japan. Systematic
thematic analysis was conducted to generate themes to address the study questions. Our results indicate that what the focus group
participants discussed fell mainly into the 3 different kinds of points: “Concerns of Child Care Providers Regarding Parental Attitudes
about Nutrition and Nurture”, “Tensions Between Parents and Child Care Providers”, and “Current Obesity Prevention Activities and
the Role of Child Care Professionals.” Child care providers needed a system to demand help from public health nurses in guiding
parents would be effective in preventing childhood obesity.
Biography
Chiyori Haga has completed her PhD in 2012 from Yamanashi University and worked there as an Assistant Professor. She is currently Associate Professor at
Okayama University Graduate School of Health Sciences. She has conducted some cohort studies about health promotion for both children with and without
disabilities. She has been serving as an Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Nursing & Clinical Practice.
Chiyori Haga, Health Care: Current Reviews 2016, 4:3(Suppl)