UTS Health: Annotated Bibliography on Parental Behavior and Obesity

This annotated bibliography examines two research articles focusing on the factors of parental behaviors that can lead to childhood obesity. The first article, by Mainland, Shaw, and Prier (2015), utilizes Critical Discourse Analysis to explore the relationship between childhood obesity, children's leisure, and parenting practices, emphasizing the influence of discourse and parental responsibility. The study highlights themes of fear related to children being overweight, the importance of leisure, and parental choices. The second article, by Davison et al. (2016), undertakes a systematic review and content analysis to investigate fathers' representation in studies on parenting and childhood obesity, highlighting the increasing role of fathers in parenting and the need for their greater inclusion in research and interventions. This research emphasizes the significance of parental influence, including fathers, in preventing childhood obesity and proposes the need for new data on gender and parental involvement.

Annotated bibliography:
Reference: Mainland, M., Shaw, S. and Prier, A., 2015. Fearing fat: exploring the
discursive links between childhood obesity, parenting, and leisure. Journal of Leisure
Research, 47(2), pp.202-219.
Discipline(s): Expansive connection among childhood obesity, leisure and parenting.
Key Question: Understanding the discourses which surrounds the problem of childhood
obesity, children’s leisure and parenting practices.
Theoretical /Applied: Theoretical Experimental/non-experimental: Non-
experimental
Empirical/non-empirical: Empirical Primary/Secondary Data: Secondary data
Deductive/inductive: Inductive Self-reported/Observed: Observed
Descriptive/explanatory: Descriptive Qualitative/Quantitative: Qualitative
Concise annotation (80 – 120 words)
Mainland, Shaw and Prier (2015) outline the discourses interrelated with childhood
obesity, parenting practice and children leisure. The researcher used Critical Discourse
Analysis (CDA) method in this study where primary attention was given towards the
implication of discourse in childhood obesity with proper understanding of parental
responsibility. The researcher conducted a qualitative research method and extracted the
required data with some relatable evidence of discourse and child obesity. The result
obtained from literature analysis explained three themes that were extracted on the basis of
different texts such as the fear in children to be fat, obligation of adoring leisure and choice
of parental address that provides the researcher with some valuable inference regarding
health of the children and parenting activities. Hence, this study was relatively efficient in
highlighting the influence of parenting practice and discourse in child obesity.
Article review by: [insert name and ID number here]
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Reference: Davison, K.K., Gicevic, S., Aftosmes-Tobio, A., Ganter, C.,
Simon, C.L., Newlan, S. and Manganello, J.A., 2016. Fathers’ representation
in observational studies on parenting and childhood obesity: a systematic
review and content analysis. American journal of public health, 106(11),
pp.e14-e21.
Discipline(s): Childhood obesity
Key question: Understanding the role of father on childhood obesity and
parenting.
Theoretical/applied: Applied Experimental/non-experimental:
Non-experimental
Empirical/non-empirical: Empirical Primary/secondary data: Secondary
data
Deductive/inductive: Deductive Self-reported/observed: Observed
Descriptive/explanatory: Descriptive Qualitative/quantitative:
Quantitative
Concise annotation (80 – 120 words)
Davison et al., (2016) outline the focus on concept of father’s involvement in
parenting activities and to find out the consequences in preventing childhood
obesity. The researcher stated that with time the involvement of fathers in
parenting activities are increasing day by day and conclusion can be derived
that father is responsible in parenting the child. The research was conducted in
five different databases using systematic review of quantitative analysis to
collect the evidence of father’s involvement in parenting the child with
obesity. Extensive analysis was performed and result was inferred with focus
on father’s participation in parenting. The study highlighted generation of new
data in the gender and number of patents as research participants. The
researcher concluded with the result stating that the fathers are understated or
underrepresented in our society and can be effective enough in preventing
obesity in the child. Different set of family intervention was developed for
increasing the opportunity and support of father in reducing the condition of
child obesity under public health repercussion.
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References:
Davison, K.K., Gicevic, S., Aftosmes-Tobio, A., Ganter, C., Simon, C.L., Newlan, S. and
Manganello, J.A., 2016. Fathers’ representation in observational studies on
parenting and childhood obesity: a systematic review and content analysis.
American journal of public health, 106(11), pp.e14-e21. doi:
10.2105/AJPH.2016.303391
Mainland, M., Shaw, S. and Prier, A., 2015. Fearing fat: exploring the discursive links
between childhood obesity, parenting, and leisure. Journal of Leisure
Research, 47(2), pp.202-219.
doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.lib.uts.edu.au/10.1080/00222216.2015.11950357
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