1. Objectifs

Intentions :
Cette étude cherche à décrire la perception qu’ont les parents de l’obésité chez les enfants et des stratégies qu’ils considèrent nécessaires.

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
Cette étude est basée sur la participation de 504 parents de la ville de Sherbrooke ayant un emploi et dont les enfants fréquentent un CPE de la région.

Instruments :
Questionnaire

Type de traitement des données :
Analyse statistique

3. Résumé

«Participating parents were aware of the increasing prevalence and consequences of childhood obesity. This agrees with the reported growing public concern about this condition, which may result from strategies such as intense media coverage and government warnings about rising obesity rates (Evans, Finkelstein, Kamerow, & Renaud, 2005). […] However, our results show that women were less interested by advertising campaigns and legislation governing food advertisements targeting children. To have a greatest likelihood of success, the target audience for such campaigns should be men rather than mixed genders. Regarding the individual strategies pertaining to the ecological approach, employed parents who participated in our study supported the implementation of physical education and nutrition programs in child care settings as specific strategies to prevent obesity. To our knowledge, previous studies have not interviewed employed parents on that matter. Nevertheless, our results are consistent with a representative survey of U.S. households on public perceptions of childhood obesity in which participants were in favor of requiring schools. […] In our study, a higher proportion of employed parents identified menu planning, nutrition label reading, and cooking classes as the program they would personally need the most, compared with information sessions about nutrition or physical activity.» (p. 118-119)