Implications for practice
The findings from this study elucidate the need for continuing
education about childhood overweight and
weight assessment with emphasis on pre-school children
in CHC. Raising the awareness of CHC-nurse’s ambivalent
feelings about childhood overweight is important
since it may affect the parent-nurse relationship and
thereby the parent’s and the nurse’s effort to influence
the children’s weight. Further, the findings from this
study may be of value for other health care personnel
and professionals working with these families, since
awareness of existing perceptions may facilitate in their
own work with these families. The authors suggest that
CHC-nurses should work with person centered counseling
and towards empowering the families, as recommended
by the existing CHC guidelines.
the various conceptions [27,28].