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What do children understand? Communicating health behavior in a European multicenter study
Was verstehen Kinder? Kommuniziertes Gesundheitsverhalten in einer europäisch-multizentrischen Studie
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Abstract Background: Diet and physical activity are important factors in the prevention of childhood overweight. This article stresses the importance of effective communication for health behavior. Methods: Transcription, description and analysis of standardized focus group discussions (FGD) in seven Europea... view more
Background: Diet and physical activity are important factors in the prevention of childhood overweight. This article stresses the importance of effective communication for health behavior. Methods: Transcription, description and analysis of standardized focus group discussions (FGD) in seven European countries using standardized questioning routes. Results: Parents are well informed about health-related topics for children, but seem to have difficulties understanding their role in promoting healthy behavior. They mentioned health-related rules, but our results show limited communication between parents and children, and no follow-up of rules. Consequently, children do not understand rules about good health and do not follow them. Conclusion: Effective and sustainable intervention programs should focus on educational methods and, using parental role modeling, facilitate parents' comprehension of their key role in setting rules and controlling them in order to communicate good health behavior to their children.... view less
Keywords
Italy; communication; Sweden; communicative competence; Federal Republic of Germany; nutrition-related illness; television; understanding; Estonia; sports; adolescent; international comparison; leisure time behavior; overweight; child; parent-child relationship; Spain; Cyprus; health behavior; Hungary
Classification
Medical Sociology
Sociology of the Youth, Sociology of Childhood
Method
empirical; quantitative empirical
Free Keywords
Child obesity; Communication; Focus group; Health behavior; IDEFICS
Document language
English
Publication Year
2010
Page/Pages
p. 391-401
Journal
Journal of Public Health, 18 (2010) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-010-0316-z
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)