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What do children understand? Communicating health behavior in a European multicenter study

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.

What do children understand? Communicating health behavior in a European multicenter study

Urheber*in: Hebestreit, Antje; Keimer, Katharina Maria; Hassel, Holger; Nappo, Annunziata; Eiben, Gabriele; Fernández, Juan Miguel; Kovacs, Eva; Lasn, Helen; Shiakou, Monica; Ahrens, Wolfgang

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Alternative title
Was verstehen Kinder? Kommuniziertes Gesundheitsverhalten in einer europäisch-multizentrischen Studie
Extent
Seite(n): 391-401
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
Journal of Public Health, 18(4)

Subject
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Jugendsoziologie, Soziologie der Kindheit
Medizinsoziologie
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Kommunikation
ernährungsbedingte Krankheit
Estland
Italien
Jugendlicher
Kind
Eltern-Kind-Beziehung
Fernsehen
Gesundheitsverhalten
Schweden
Sport
Freizeitverhalten
Verstehen
Zypern
kommunikative Kompetenz
Spanien
internationaler Vergleich
Ungarn
Übergewicht
empirisch
empirisch-quantitativ

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Hebestreit, Antje
Keimer, Katharina Maria
Hassel, Holger
Nappo, Annunziata
Eiben, Gabriele
Fernández, Juan Miguel
Kovacs, Eva
Lasn, Helen
Shiakou, Monica
Ahrens, Wolfgang
Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Deutschland
(when)
2010

DOI
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-203703
Rights
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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  • Zeitschriftenartikel

Associated

  • Hebestreit, Antje
  • Keimer, Katharina Maria
  • Hassel, Holger
  • Nappo, Annunziata
  • Eiben, Gabriele
  • Fernández, Juan Miguel
  • Kovacs, Eva
  • Lasn, Helen
  • Shiakou, Monica
  • Ahrens, Wolfgang

Time of origin

  • 2010

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