A Qualitative Study on Parenting Practices to Sustain Adolescent Health Behaviors in American Indian Families
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Design
2.2. Study Setting
2.3. Ethical Considerations, Sampling, and Participant Recruitment
2.4. Data Collection
2.5. Data Analysis
2.6. Researcher Background and Positioning
3. Results
3.1. Theme 1: Parenting in Nontraditional Families
3.2. Theme 2: Living in the American Grab-and-Go Culture
3.3. Theme 3: Being There and Teaching Responsibility
3.4. Feedback about the AYEM-B Camp in a Box
4. Discussion
4.1. Main Findings
4.2. Strengths and Limitations
4.3. Relevance of the Study and Policy Implications
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Facilitators | Barriers | |
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Nutrition | Including youth in meal planning, shopping, preparation, home-cooked meals | Lack of time to cook, eating on the run, and eating out Parent: “We’re pretty much on the go a lot. So, it’s kinda hard at times for us sometimes to get… healthy, good, cooked meal. Sometimes we just got to grab things on the way home.” |
Trying new foods and increasing vegetables Parent: “He really likes to cook. He likes learning new recipes and cooking them. So, in that case, I will say, Okay, let’s try to find something you can cook that includes vegetables or something new.” | Parent role model Parent: “What I eat, she eats. So, I guess I’m the lead on that.” Youth from a different family: “I just think, usually what my parents eat, I eat. Kind of like the same.” | |
Family meals | Hard to change old habits, cravings for “junk food” or soda | |
Physical Activity | Motivated by health conditions of parent or family member Parent: “You don’t want to be told that you are diabetic… so to make the healthy choices now.” | Environmental conditions, such as apartment living, summer heat, lack of access to parks, pandemic restrictions |
Being active together as a family, such as walking, sports, dancing, chores | Asthma in youth or parent | |
Home equipment, such as a treadmill | ||
School gym class and extracurricular sports | Parent role model Parent: “I think it starts with home. You gotta be able to be active yourself so their kids can see that… you’re trying to get them involved with what they’re doing because if you’re not doing it, they’re not gonna do it.” | |
Screen Media | Parent monitoring time on screens Youth: “It’s like my mom doesn’t want us to just sit around and play on our phones and on the games…she’ll tell us, like ‘Hey. You need to clean your rooms’ and telling us we should do some-thing for, like, an hour of doing something outside, or even coming inside and cleaning up with doing chores, other than just being on our phones.” | Challenging teen attitudes Parent: “The attitude. The attitude of, well, everyone else is doing it. Why can’t I, type of attitude. Then, no, oh, I want to look at these videos, or I am bored.” |
Pervasiveness of screens Youth: “I would say that it’s kind of, like, a problem with us, like, try not to have so much screen time so much.” | ||
Watching shows or movies as a family | ||
Parent monitoring content of screen time and social media | ||
Sleep | Routines and bedtimes Youth: “My mom will walk around saying “You guys need to wake up” and usually that’s how it goes.” | Parents’ work schedule |
Parents go to bed before youth | ||
Teaching youth about sleep Parent: “If you don’t get enough sleep then you’re not gonna do good on your test, cause you’re gonna be too sleepy trying to think about what your questions are and stuff like that.” | Screens at bedtime Parent: “Yes, yes, that’s what I noticed, for a while where I didn’t, and then I got complaints from teachers, so and so is falling asleep, so and so, and it was just like, oh no, no, then I had to start taking that away from them. And I tell them it’s a privilege, that’s a privilege and I can take that away whenever.” | |
Teens stay up late, sleep in late on weekends |
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Hodgson, C.; Decker, D.; O’Connor, T.M.; Hingle, M.; Gachupin, F.C. A Qualitative Study on Parenting Practices to Sustain Adolescent Health Behaviors in American Indian Families. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20, 7015. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20217015
Hodgson C, Decker D, O’Connor TM, Hingle M, Gachupin FC. A Qualitative Study on Parenting Practices to Sustain Adolescent Health Behaviors in American Indian Families. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2023; 20(21):7015. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20217015
Chicago/Turabian StyleHodgson, Christine, Dylan Decker, Teresia M. O’Connor, Melanie Hingle, and Francine C. Gachupin. 2023. "A Qualitative Study on Parenting Practices to Sustain Adolescent Health Behaviors in American Indian Families" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, no. 21: 7015. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20217015