Qualitative Interviews on Parental Roles in Pediatric Obesity Rehabilitation

A qualitative text dataset contains interview and focus group transcripts exploring parental roles in outpatient rehabilitation for children with higher body weight. The data was gathered from three participant groups: healthcare professionals, parents, and children/adolescents. It was analyzed using a framework analysis method by author Lucia Schlottner.

Use Cases

• Analyze interview transcripts to identify recurring themes like 'motivators', 'role models', 'authority', and 'mediators' in parental roles.
• Compare text segments from children, parents, and professionals to examine differences in perceptions of 'control and autonomy'.
• Extract and code statements from transcripts to investigate the tension between children's 'appreciation for parental support' and their 'desire for greater self-determination'.
• Use qualitative coding on the text data to inform the development of 'individualized parent programs' for rehabilitation facilities.

Strengths

• Data is derived from a controlled, two-arm, mixed-methods study evaluating a specific outpatient rehabilitation program.
• Provides multi-perspective insights from three distinct stakeholder groups: children, parents, and healthcare professionals.
• The dataset is shared under a permissive CC BY 4.0 license, allowing for broad reuse and analysis.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 41.0 KB, indicating limited textual scope, likely containing only summary or excerpted findings rather than full transcripts.
• As a qualitative text document, it lacks structured, tabular data (rows/columns) suitable for quantitative or automated analysis.
• The specific geographic origin and exact time range of the underlying study are not provided, limiting contextual understanding.

Provenance

Source

figshare, uploaded by author Lucia Schlottner.

Collection Method

Interviews with healthcare professionals and parents, and focus groups with children and adolescents, analyzed with framework analysis.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-03-24, indicating it is a future-dated entry which may reflect planned publication.