Introduction:

Inadequate dietary practices causes childhood overweight and obesity, habits that are learned in the family and social environment; in Mexico, prevalence increased by 1.1% compared to 2012. Having Nursing Care Plans will provide guidance to reduce obesity in the family by promoting healthy nutritional habits.

Objective:

To design nursing care plans aimed at parents of overweight or obese children, feasible to implement within the family environment.

Methodology:

The proposal for the preparation of the nursing care plan of the Permanent Commission of Nursing in Mexico was used. The delimitation of the problem was by assessing 30 parents with children from 5 to 11 years old who were overweight or obese; the construction of the care plans were carried out according to the analysis using the Nurse Theory of Self-Care Deficit, the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association taxonomy, the Nursing Outcomes Classification, and the Nursing Interventions Classification, these classified according to nursing systems proposed by Orem.

Results:

Basic conditioning factors were identified, such as poor nutritional habits in the family, and obesity and overweight in schoolchildren, from which five care plans were created: Ineffective role performance, ineffective health maintenance behaviors, deficient knowledge, tendency to adopt risk behaviors for health and ineffective eating dynamics at preschool and school.

Conclusion:

Continue the development of care plans to prevent and reduce obesity in childhood that increases or improves their quality of life.

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