Exploring nurses’ knowledge and attitudes about children who are overweight/obese : a review of the literature

Tuan-I Tsai; Lauretta Luck; Diana Jefferies; Lesley Wilkes

doi:10.5430/cns.v5n1p50

Exploring nurses’ knowledge and attitudes about children who are overweight/obese : a review of the literature

Tuan-I Tsai, Lauretta Luck, Diana Jefferies, Lesley Wilkes

Western Sydney University

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The study reviewed the published research on nurses’ knowledge and attitudes about children who are overweight/obese. A literature search of research published in English between 2000 and 2016 was conducted in CINAHL, MEDLINE, Scopus and Google Scholar. A total of 5 papers met the inclusion criteria for this review with only one paper specifically discussing the attitudes of student nurses to childhood overweight/obesity. This review has shown that although there are very few articles on nurses’ knowledge and attitudes to overweight/obese children, the papers included in the review demonstrate that nurses were generally lacking in knowledge about this issue.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	50-56
Number of pages	7
Journal	Clinical Nursing Studies
Volume	5
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5430/cns.v5n1p50
Publication status	Published - 2017

Keywords

nurses
obesity in children

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