‘I Think It Will Be Like This Forever’: How Family Narratives Affect Participation in a Childhood Weight Management Intervention

Dan Grabowski, Anne Martine Aaberg Mortil, Didde Hoeeg, Maj-Britt Lundsgaard Hansen, Birgitte Højgaard Roikjer and Grete Katrine Teilmann
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Dan Grabowski: Health Promotion Research, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Niels Steensens Vej 2, 2820 Gentofte, Denmark
Anne Martine Aaberg Mortil: Health Promotion Research, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Niels Steensens Vej 2, 2820 Gentofte, Denmark
Didde Hoeeg: Health Promotion Research, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Niels Steensens Vej 2, 2820 Gentofte, Denmark
Maj-Britt Lundsgaard Hansen: North Zealand Hospital, Dyrehavevej 29, 3400 Hillerød, Denmark
Birgitte Højgaard Roikjer: North Zealand Hospital, Dyrehavevej 29, 3400 Hillerød, Denmark
Grete Katrine Teilmann: North Zealand Hospital, Dyrehavevej 29, 3400 Hillerød, Denmark

Social Sciences, 2021, vol. 10, issue 5, 1-14

Abstract: The family represents the cause of as well as the solution to childhood overweight in many family-based childhood weight management interventions. Involving the family also entails involving the individual family members’ experiences with, attitudes towards, and understandings of obesity. This study explores how families with life-long experiences of overweight manage and experience a family-based childhood weight management intervention in Northern Zealand in Denmark. The analysis is focused on family narratives and their temporal character. The families’ narratives about overweight and past weight management interventions are crucial to how they understand and manage the present intervention. Additionally, the families expect the focus on weight management to continue to be a constant part of their everyday life. The paper concludes that the understanding of weight management in interventions should take its point of departure in the life-world, which the individual family creates through members’ narratives about overweight.

Keywords: childhood; obesity; narratives; intervention; family (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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