Assessing Healthy Eating Attitudes and Behaviors of Caregivers at a Pediatric Clinic in Southwest Virginia |Biomedgrid

Context: Virginia has the nation's highest rate of obese children two to four years old enrolled in the federally supported Women, Infants and Children Nutrition program. Southwest Virginia consistently has higher rates of childhood obesity compared to the rest of the state. The researchers proposed that a discordance exists between caregivers'/parents' knowledge, attitudes and behaviors related to childhood nutrition.