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Development of a Measure to Assess Parent Perceptions of Barriers to Healthy Child Weight Management

Darling, Katherine E
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1459500365

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2016, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Psychological Sciences.
Families face many barriers related to healthy weight management, which likely contributes to the prevalence of childhood obesity in the United States. Many barriers to a healthy lifestyle within the family have been identified, yet no quantitative measure exists to examine these barriers. The present study developed a quantitative measure of parents’ perceptions of barriers to healthy weight management within the family context. Parents of children between the ages of 7-17 were recruited using Amazon Mechanical Turk (N = 812). Through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis four factors emerged: Parental Encouragement, Cost and Built Environment, Family Support and Family Time Constraints. The final 19-item measure was found to have good initial reliability and validity. Future research is needed to examine whether this measure may be used in clinical practice to identify barriers to a healthy family lifestyle in order to tailor interventions to address these barriers.
Amy Sato (Advisor)
Christopher Flessner (Committee Member)
Crowther Janis (Committee Member)
Updegraff John (Committee Member)
68 p.
Clinical Psychology; Psychology
Barriers, weight management, family, child obesity

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  • Darling, K. E. (2016). Development of a Measure to Assess Parent Perceptions of Barriers to Healthy Child Weight Management [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1459500365

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Darling, Katherine. Development of a Measure to Assess Parent Perceptions of Barriers to Healthy Child Weight Management. 2016. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1459500365.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Darling, Katherine. "Development of a Measure to Assess Parent Perceptions of Barriers to Healthy Child Weight Management." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1459500365

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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