Transferring Knowledge on Motor Development to Socially Vulnerable Parents of Infants: The Practice of Health Visitors

Marlene Rosager Lund Pedersen, Marianne Staal Stougaard and Bjarne Ibsen
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Marlene Rosager Lund Pedersen: Centre for Sports, Health and Civil Society, Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense, Denmark
Marianne Staal Stougaard: Department of Health, Social Work, and Welfare Research, UCL University College, Niels Bohrs Allé 1, 5230 Odense, Denmark
Bjarne Ibsen: Centre for Sports, Health and Civil Society, Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense, Denmark

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 23, 1-15

Abstract: Parents are a determinant factor in a child’s development of motor skills. Studies show that programmes in which health visitors supervise parents may improve infants’ motor skills. This study examines which factors health visitors have found to enhance and hamper the implementation of a motor development programme among socially vulnerable parents of infants. The data consist of three group interviews with 4 health visitors in each (12 health visitors in total) and a subsequent member check with 27 health visitors. All were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim, and a thematic analysis was conducted. The results show that according to the health visitors, the programme increases the ability and willingness of parents to engage in co-producing its implementation. In particular, the materials that they hand out to the parents enhance the implementation. On the other hand, they perceive the limited time provided for the implementation, together with the many pressing needs of the families, as hampering the implementation. Consequently, the study can inform future policies and programmes for frontline workers and socially vulnerable parents of infants.

Keywords: health visitors; socially vulnerable parents; early childhood; infants; motor development; physical activity; health promotion; implementation; co-production (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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