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Persistent Optimizing

Published:2014-09-25 Issue:4 Volume:25 Page:527-539
ISSN:1049-7323
Container-title:Qualitative Health Research
language:en
Short-container-title:Qual Health Res

Author:

Walsh Audrey¹,Meagher-Stewart Donna²,Macdonald Marilyn²

Affiliation:

1. Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada

2. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Abstract

Mothers’ ability to provide healthy food choices for their children has become more complex in our current obesogenic environment. We conducted a total of 35 interviews with 18 mothers of preschool children. Using constructivist grounded theory methods, we developed a substantive theory of how mothers make food choices for their preschoolers. Our substantive theory, persistent optimizing, consists of three main integrated conceptual categories: (a) acknowledging contextual constraints, (b) stretching boundaries, and (c) strategic positioning. Implications to improve mothers’ ability to make healthy food choices that reduce their children’s risk of becoming overweight or obese are discussed.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1049732314552456

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