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If interested in making a change,
Who is ready to take action?
Nutrition:
High Importance
Low Confidence
44% (n=66)
|
High Importance
High Confidence
35% (n=52) |
Low Importance
Low Confidence
13% (n=19)
|
Low Importance
High Confidence
8% (n=12) |
Physical Activity:
High Importance
Low Confidence
32% (n=37)
|
High Importance
High Confidence
32% (n=37) |
Low Importance
Low Confidence
23% (n=27)
|
Low Importance
High Confidence
14% (n=16) |
Children with BMI > 95%
Notes:
Take Home Message:
Families of young children are less engaged in making changes in their child's physical activity than nutrition. This is shown by low perceived importance and interest in starting to make changes.
When interested, nearly half of all families lack confidence they can make changes for their child to be more active.
Among overweight children, most parents think that changing their child's eating is very important, yet less than half of these parents of overweight children have confidence that they can make changes for their child to eat healthier.
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