Survey Summary

Group 6

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Survey Summary

Introduction/ literature review

Nowadays, Childhood obesity is a major health issue in United States, it is most prevalent among low-income children. In fact, the prevalence of obesity in preschool children populations have doubled in recent decades in the United States. What’s more, childhood obesity increase the risk for adult obesity and it related to many health consequences (CDC, 2013). Further, being overweight also negatively affects growth, blood pressure, and glucose in children’s metabolic function (Lutfiyya, Garcia, Dankwa, Young, & Lipsky, 2008). Since our research question is obesity among low income children; therefore, we conducted a survey to determine the amount of obese low-income children.

Methods

The purpose of this study is to identify the number of obese low-income children. We conducted this study by doing a survey. We decided to obtain information from a group of 28 participants who are living in low-income communities. In this survey, we asked our participants to report their age, race and gender. Additionally, we asked them information about their shopping patterns such as how often they visit grocery stores, corner stores and fast food restaurant. The duration of their physical activity and level of safety in their neighborhoods. The reasons we are asking these questions is because we want to determine if there is a correlation between shopping habits, physical activity, race and

Results

One shocking finding from this survey was 78.6 % of participants answered YES to, “is there low price grocery store in your community/neighborhood?” This connects to high rates of childhood obesity because low income parents will gravitate towards foods that are more affordable. Which leads to the next shocking finding 32.1% of participants consume processed foods more than three times a week, many do not know the amount of sodium (salt) that is in these foods. 85.7% go to the grocery store once or twice a week, which shows that new foods are being brought into the household weekly. 53.6% of participants were neutral about the safety of their community, which pays a big role in how active parents and children are, unsafe communities will limit physical activities which can potentially lead to obesity.

Conclusion/ Next steps

Efforts to improve food budgeting skills, increase nutrition knowledge, and develop meal preparation strategies involving less meat and more fruits and vegetables, could be valuable in helping low-income families nutritionally make the best use of their food dollars (Wigg, K., & Smith, C.)

this could be a possibility for next step. Originally added in results but it didn't flow makes more sense in the conclusion

Tables and figures

References

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (2013, August 09). Vital signs: Obesity among low-income, preschool-aged children--United States, 2008-2011. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23925173

Lutfiyya, M. N., Garcia, R., Dankwa, C. M., Young, T., & Lipsky, M. S. (2008). Overweight and obese prevalence rates in African American and Hispanic children: an analysis of data from the 2003–2004 National Survey of Children's Health. The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 21(3), 191-199

Wiig, K., & Smith, C. (2009). The art of grocery shopping on a food stamp budget: Factors influencing the food choices of low-income women as they try to make ends meet. Public Health Nutrition, 12(10), 1726-1734. doi:10.1017/S1368980008004102