Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ

If interested in making a change, Who is ready to take action?

Nutrition:

High Importance Low Confidence 44% (n=66)	High Importance High Confidence 35% (n=52)
Low Importance Low Confidence 13% (n=19)	Low Importance High Confidence 8% (n=12)

Physical Activity:

High Importance Low Confidence 32% (n=37)	High Importance High Confidence 32% (n=37)
Low Importance Low Confidence 23% (n=27)	Low Importance High Confidence 14% (n=16)

Children with BMI > 95%

Notes:

Take Home Message:
Families of young children are less engaged in making changes in their child's physical activity than nutrition. This is shown by low perceived importance and interest in starting to make changes.
When interested, nearly half of all families lack confidence they can make changes for their child to be more active.
Among overweight children, most parents think that changing their child's eating is very important, yet less than half of these parents of overweight children have confidence that they can make changes for their child to eat healthier.