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  title info:
    title: Elementary school personnel's perceptions of and recommendations for managing child obesity
    sub title: a naturalistic study
  name:
    name part: Dixon, Mary Odum.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Pruitt, Buster E.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Jones-McKyer, Ellisa Lisako
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: This dissertation presents three separate studies investigating elementary school personnel's perceptions of and recommendations for managing child obesity. First, a systematic literature review will be presented with an assessment of the very limited current body of literature related to elementary school personnel's perceptions of child obesity to determine the direction of the second and third studies. The systematic review presents personnel's perspectives of (1) the extent of child obesity, (2) contributing factors of child obesity, (3) solutions for child obesity, and (4) barriers to overcoming child obesity. Second, drawing upon the systematic review, a qualitative investigation of elementary school personnel's perceptions of and recommendations for managing child obesity will be presented. Utilizing an emergent design, data collection comprised one-on-one interviews with 31 elementary school personnel. A thematic analysis was employed on raw data and a socioecological model was utilized to explain emergent themes. Participating school personnel identified the home environment and parental factors as the leading factors contributing to child obesity. Personnel also emphasized child control of dietary and physical activity choices, most notably within the home environment. Third, a qualitative case study examining an elementary physical education (P.E.) teacher's perspectives of the impact of obesity on her obese students' experiences in her classroom will be presented. A narrative framework was employed, utilizing both thematic and structural analyses to examine the narratives elicited during the interview. The thematic analysis illuminated a participation refusal pattern of obese students within this P.E. teacher's classroom. The structural analysis highlighted the participating P.E. teacher's customized intervention for her obese students' participation refusals. The combination of thematic and structural methodologies resulted in a preliminary model of the…
  note: by Mary Odum Dixon.
  note: "Major Subject: Health Education"
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Doctor of Philosophy Texas A&M University 2011 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-9909
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation)
  subject:
    topic: Major Health Education
  subject:
    topic: Obesity
  subject:
    topic: Childhood Obesity
  subject:
    topic: Elementary School Personnel
  subject:
    topic: Overweight
  subject:
    topic: Qualitative Methods
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-9909
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 121126
    record change date: 20150922145603.0
    record identifier: in00002785177