Hur föräldrar får och tar emot information beträffande barnobesitas.

Sammanfattning: Background: Obesity’s rapid growth and its serious consequences for public health, is assessed as one of the most serious public health challenges. In Sweden, the number of children with child obesity has duplicated in 15 years. Statistics reveals that approximately 4 to 5% of all children in Sweden suffer of obesity. As families and individuals themselves choose their diet, they need knowledge to make healthy choices for themselves and for their children. Parents are the primary source for communicating health information to their children and adolescents. Hence, there is a demand to improve the targeted information to parents. The risk of a child becoming overweight reduces the sooner parents embrace healthy habits. Purpose: The aim was to examine the experts' experiences and perceptions of how parents get and receive information about children's health with a focus on child obesity. Method: The study design was explorative with a qualitative approach. Ten interviews were conducted and used for qualitative content analysis, and basis for the presented results. Results: The analysis resulted in ten subcategories and four categories presented below. 1. To study the environment around the entire family, 2. That there is a interest by all to promote children’s health, 3. To personalize information, 4. What the information should discuss. The main result of this study reveals that expert´s perceived parents today are getting good information through actors like child health center (BVC) and the school, hence the parents interpreted as positive to information regarding their children's health. However, it stated that the experts' experienced barriers in the treatment of child obesity and lack of information about child obesity. These barriers highlighted to depend on both genetics and environment while lack emphasized to base on ignorance and prejudices from parents and other stakeholders. Conclusion: The experts perceived that parents were positive towards information about children's health, but sometimes less positive towards information regarding child obesity. In contrary, the experts conveyed that there were gaps in the information of child obesity from BVC, due to a lack of knowledge and prejudice of the BVC: s staff. The biggest barrier to treatment and prevention against child obesity mediated as the environment. Society needs to make changes by suggestion to remove extra prices on candy, and instead both offer and send out information about healthier options. Suggested strategies was to organize group meetings to help parents manage information about child obesity. Stakeholders like BVC and school could take healthlitteracy into count when providing information.