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Running head: NURSING ARTICLE REVIEW 2

NURSING ARTICLE REVIEW 2

Nursing Article Review

Jenna Horgan

St Thomas University

NUR 416

Professor Henriquez

February 2, 2022

The area of clinical practice is family nursing, and it involves the assessment of the family members’ physical; and psychological health and well-being. It assesses the ability of the family to offer care and support to the client where appropriate. One of the major concerns while working in this area has been the growth of the childhood obesity rate. As a family nurse, it is a personal responsibility to ensure that parents and children are assisted in preventing the risk of exposure to childhood obesity and early screening process (Lloyd et al., 2018). The family members must also be educated on managing children who are already diagnosed with obesity by watching their diet and involvement in physical exercises, among other interventions.

Lidgate et al. (2018) collected data on human behavior to help in understanding why and how decisions are made. This was qualitative research that involved four in-depth focus groups using 14 participants, i.e., seven informal caregivers and seven parents. The authors explored experiences of both parents and the informal caregivers when it comes to giving and receiving the informal childcare for British children of age 0-5 years, their apparent reasons of the connections between obesity amongst children and the informal; childcare. and the favored solution thoughts and delivery approaches for the prevention of childhood obesity under the informal care. Based on the outcome of this study, there was a perception that informal care leads to childhood obesity through cross-generation conflict; the reduction in the energy ability of the cares; and the increase in snacking (Lidgate & Lindenmeyer, 2018). Therefore, the authors highlighted the need to ensure that there is the use of the present primary care platforms like the health visits and check-ups to help in reaching and delivering the cheaper information-based solution to children of age between 0 to 5 years who are receiving the informal care.

References

Lidgate, E. D., & Lindenmeyer, A. (2018). Qualitative insight into informal childcare and childhood obesity in children aged 0–5 years in the UK. BMC Public Health, 18, 1229. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-6131-0

Lloyd, J., CStat, C. S., Logan, S., Green, C., Dean, S., Hillsdon, M., Abraham, C., Tomlinson, R., Pearson, V., Taylor, R., Ryan, E., Price, L., Streeter, A., Wyatt, K., & Wyatt, K. (2018). Effectiveness of the Healthy Lifestyles Programme (HeLP) to prevent obesity in UK primary-school children: a cluster randomized controlled trial. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 2(1), 35-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(17)30151-7