Barnfetma - en fråga av vikt
Skolsköterskors upplevelser och erfarenheter av arbetet med överviktiga barn
AbstractThe aim of the study was to describe how school nurses experience the work with overweightchildren and youths from the compulsory school to upper secondary school and what kind ofnursing interventions they perform. The study had a descriptive design and ten school nursesfrom a municipality in the middle of Sweden participated. Data were collected by semistructured interviews and analyzed using qualitative content analysis. The result is presentedin six categories and one theme. The category to identify and investigate describes how theschool nurses, based on the result from the health interviewing, identified and investigated theoverweight children. To offer and follow up describes how the school nurses experienced theextensive program. To motivate describes the school nurses difficulties in motivating, theirexperiences of benefits when using the method ?motivational interviewing?, their thoughtsabout choosing the right words and the importance in involving the parents. To experiencegood results describes what the school nurses considered important by the childrenthemselves to do, in order to achieve a good result. To experience difficulties describes whichdifficulties the school nurses feel they face in the work with overweight children. Wanting tochange describes which changes the school nurses wanted to have regarding the care ofoverweight children. The theme ?a bit on the way but not quite there? emerges from thecategories and describes how the school nurses experience the work with overweight children and youths.Keywords: school nurse, overweight, children, experiences