title: Opportunistic health promotion among overweight children.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore children's nurses' attitudes to providing health promotion advice to overweight children and their families during hospital admissions.
  
  
  METHODS
  Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted in a private room in the ward setting. Interviews were recorded and transcribed, and thematic analysis of the transcripts was undertaken.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The six themes generated from responses were: responsibility for health promotion; sensitivity of the topic; long-term benefits; parents--a barrier; need for training; and need for institutional support.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Further research with acute care children's nurses in the UK is required to validate the study findings. More work is also needed to explore the ethics of health promotion in the acute care setting.
authors: Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust.
authors: Nicola
authors: N
authors: Greenwood
authors: Kiara
authors: K
authors: Lewis
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education*; D063766:Pediatric Obesity / Q000451:nursing* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: Acute care; child health; children’s nurses; health promotion; obesity; overweight