Sahnaz Nohi; Hamidreza Hatami; Masoud Janbozorgi; Asraf Sadat Banijamali
Volume 6, Issue 1 , August 2017, , Pages 77-90
Abstract
Introduction: Parenting styles of parents, have important roles in children's physical and psychological health. This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of combined parenting Education (biological-social) to Mothers on perceived self–efficacy of overweight children. Method: The ...
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Introduction: Parenting styles of parents, have important roles in children's physical and psychological health. This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of combined parenting Education (biological-social) to Mothers on perceived self–efficacy of overweight children. Method: The method was quasi- experimental. The studied population included all overweight boy elementary school students (Region Two and Five in Tehran) with their mothers. Overall 50 mothers with their children selected Through available sampling. finally, due to the drop of 2 subjects, 48 people remained in the study and were randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups consist of 24 people. The experimental group trained, 90 minutes sessions weekly for 2.5 months (10 sessions) and control group received no intervention. Prior to and after Training, all participant completed demographic information questionnaire, Children completed perceived self- efficacy questionnaire too and their BMI were measured. Findings: Data analysis with Ancova and Mancova showed that Parenting education improves the perceived self-efficacy scores in the experimental group compared with the control group (P
