Table 6 Summary of the characteristics of the included studies of experience and expectations (qualitative studies)
Study ID | Country | Participants | Mode of communication and setting |
|---|---|---|---|
Alba 2018 [53] | USA | Parents of overweight and obese elementary school students in south eastern Pennsylvania where one third of the population is economically disadvantaged | Letter sent home from elementary school |
Ayash 2012 [54] | USA | Parents of children with a BMI above the 85th aged 2 to 13 years in Massachusetts where low-income, young, black and Latino children are most effected | Face-to-face interactions with exploration of preferences regarding receiving a letter before or after the appointment |
Blood 2011 [55] | United Kingdom | Children aged 10–11 who had gone through weight screening in the last two months | Face-to-face weight screening experience |
Bolling 2009 [56] | USA | Mostly white, privately insured suburban, urban and rural parents of children aged 2 to 6 years and between the 85th and 94th percentile body mass index in the suburban mid-west. | Parental preferences for terminology related to weight at health visits |
Bossick 2017 [57] | USA | Teen patients from metropolitan Detroit diagnosed as overweight in the last 12 months and mothers | Face-to-face meetings with health care providers |
Gainsbury 2018 [58] | United Kingdom | Parents of 4–5 year olds in south-west England who had recently received written feedback from the national child measurement program representing the full spectrum of feedback options (under-, healthy, over- and very overweight) | Letter from school setting |
Gillison 2014 [77] | United Kingdom | All parents receiving letters informing them that their child was overweight (91st –98th centile) or very overweight (98th–100th centile) in south-west England | Letter from school setting |
Guerrero 2011 [59] | USA | Low-income Spanish speaking Mexican mothers of children ages 2–5 years attending a free clinic | Face-to-face meetings with health care providers |
Harris 2009 [60] | USA | Students and parents from an area in West Virginia with high levels of obesity, underserved by medical professionals, rural and with low socio-economic status | Letter from school setting |
Jorda 2017 [61] | USA | Parents in Florida who had received BMI referrals for their children in first, third or sixth grade and child was over the 95%. The obesity rate for the area was 40%. | Letter from school setting |
Knierim 2015 [62] | USA | Self-identified Latino, 18 to 80 years old, and the parent or grandparent/primary caregiver of a 2- to 18-year-old primary care patient in a poor area of Denver, Colorado with a high prevalence of obesity in the Latino community | Face-to-face meetings with health care providers |
Kubik 2007 [63] | USA | Parents of elementary school students from a suburban school district in Minnesota | Exploring how parents wanted to receive communication about their child’s weight |
McPherson 2018 [64] | Canada | 7–18-year olds with and without disabilities and their caregivers from two large paediatric hospitals in Ontario | Face-to-face meetings with health care providers |
Moyer 2014 [65] | USA | Parents/caregivers of 8- to 14-year-old obese (95th BMI-for-age percentile) children from low income families attending public schools in Massachusetts | Letter from school setting and face-to-face meetings with health care providers |
Nnyanzi 2016 [66] | England | Children who had been weighed at school aged 10–11 in the North East of England in an area with a relatively high prevalence of childhood obesity | Letter home to parents from school setting as well as the experience of being weighed at school |
Nnyanzi 2016a [67] | England | Parents/guardians after they had received their child’s weight results letter in the North East of England in an area with a relatively high prevalence of childhood obesity | Letter home from school setting |
USA | Parents of children in grades Kindergarten- grade 8 in a school district in Philadelphia. Had to be English speaking so excluded Latino families with a higher prevalence of obesity. | Letter home from school setting | |
USA | Parents of children who had received a letter stating their child was overweight in the Mid-West | Letter home from school setting | |
Shrewsbury 2010 [71] | Australia | Adolescents and unrelated parents of adolescents from low-middle socio-economic areas in Sydney and the surrounding area | Face-to-face communication with a health care provider |
Thompson 2015 [72] | USA | Parents who identified as Latino, non-Hispanic white, African American, or Asian American in a low income area | Letter home from school setting |
Toftemo 2013 [73] | Norway | Parents of overweight children aged 2.5–5.5 years in a rural part of eastern Norway | Face-to-face communication with a health care provider |
Valencia 2016 [74] | USA | Mostly Latino mothers and caregivers attending clinics for low income families in southern Arizona | Face-to-face communication with a health care provider about growth charts |
Woolford 2007 [75] | USA | Mothers of pre-schoolers recruited from a Head Start program for low income families in Michigan | Face-to-face communication with a health care provider |