PHYC Questions
- What is the purpose of the research study?
To involve mothers of children in the nursery school from different cultural and economic families in particular set debates to analyze motherly attitudes, apprehensions, and performs attached to children’s eating and inspecting motherly opinions concerning the weight of children.
- What types of people are being studied?
The white, African-American, Hispanic-American low-income groups; white middle-income mother groups with children of less than five but more than two years old.
- Who are the specific people in the study?
The white people, because a cross-section of the study was done on them.
- Are they the right people to study based on the purpose of this research
study? Why or why not?
Yes, because they are the people with the highest population among the people, the research was done.
- How were the people in this research study selected?
The research team conducted 12 focus groups (Sherry et al., 2004). The white, Hispanic American, and African Americans each in a group of three from low-income families who were picked from special programs of nutrition for infants, women, and children and an additional middle income from the white.
- What are the research questions?
Strategy for child feeding concerning feeding duty, eating pressure and restriction, food as a gift or bribe, and children’s weight.
- How was the information from these people analyzed to answer the research
questions?
Professional transcriptionists transcribed the audiotaped data, and an edited transcript that had the mother’s response to the questions was attained that answered the research questions.
- What was learned from this research study? Discuss the results for each research question.
Eating pressure and restriction- Mothers from the middle-income class did not accommodate specific food requirements from their children, middle-income whites claimed to be tired of feeding their children. In contrast, African mothers had limited food supply.
Parental child feeding strategy regarding feeding responsibility- Most white restricted children from accessing the food they do not want them to eat. The low income did not accommodate their children’s needs while middle-income people involved their children in cooking.
Use of food as a prize or bribe (Sherry et al., 2004). All the Hispanic Americans used fruit as a bribe, African-American mothers did not offer any bribe, and the middle-income white had some snacks in their car to bribe their children.
Children weight- Whites of low-income 22 32 59 9, African Americans of lower-class 24 4 75 21, Hispanic Americans 27 33 59 7 of low-income class and whites of low-income class 28 15 67 18 were found to be in this order.
- Are the conclusions drawn by the author(s) justified by the data? Why or why
not?
Yes, because the response turnout and analysis were correctly done and legit to conclude.
- What are the practical uses for these research findings?
To help mothers understand when their children are full and different cultures of children overweight. And help to overcome stress on mealtime chaos.
Reference
Sherry, B., McDivitt, J., Birch, L. L., Cook, F. H., Sanders, S., Prish, J. L., …& Scanlon, K. S.
(2004). Attitudes, practices, and concerns about child feeding and child weight status
among socioeconomically diverse white, Hispanic, and African-American
mothers. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 104(2), 215-221.