Childhood Obesity among Socioeconomically Vulnerable Families: A Path Model Using Parenting Behavior and Its Associates

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Background: Using path analysis, we aimed to examine whether parenting self-efficacy and parenting styles would be significant associates with parenting behavior, and the parenting behavior would be significantly as sociated with the obesity status of children from socioeconomically vulnerable families. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 61 parents and their children enrolled in public welfare systems in a community in Seoul, South Korea. Parenting behavior was defined as encouraging a child’s healthy eating habits and was measured using the Child Feeding Questionnaire. Results: In the path model, higher levels of parenting self-efficacy and lower levels of authoritarian parenting were significantly associated with a higher level of parenting behavior, which was significantly associated with lower child body mass index z-scores. Conclusions: Community health nurses need to provide intervention strategies for increasing parenting self-ef ficacy and decreasing authoritarian parenting styles to promote parenting behaviors and childhood obesity pre vention among socioeconomically vulnerable families. Korean J Health Promot 2023;23(1):28-3

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