Browsing by Subject "lapsiperheet"
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(2019)Grocery shopping is considered by many to be an unpleasant chore, with many annoying factors such as long checkout lines, reluctant children and melting frozen foods. Online grocery store as a service has been available in Finland for several years. Even though Finns are active e-commerce users, it has not gained much popularity. This study examines how families with children perceive attractive and suspicious factors of online grocery stores as well as the impact of the service on families' everyday life. There is a lot of Finnish and international research discussing online grocery stores from an economic or marketing point of view, but the impact of the service on families has not been studied much. According to previous research, families with children are also the most significant user group for online grocery business with most growth potential. This study was conducted using qualitative methods. The research material consisted of eight theme interviews with parents from the Helsinki metropolitan area, who either had used the online grocery store or were interested in trying it. The data collected from the interviews was analyzed using qualitative content analysis and thematic analysis. According to the results, the most attractive factors in using online grocery stores are convenience and time savings. Doubts about product quality and freshness emerged as suspicious factors. The time saved by using online grocery stores could be spent with the family, which was considered as an attractive factor for families with children. Reduced stress and easier commuting with children were also mentioned in the interviews several times as positive outcomes following online grocery shopping.
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(2020)The discussion about parenting revolves around what is good parenting and the well-being of children. There is less talk about how to be a good parent and how to support parenting. The aim of this thesis is to find out what kind of support families with children feel they need, where to seek help from and how families with children would like to improve their services. The thesis also opens up the Finnish family service system for children. The thesis has been implemented by means of qualitative research methods. Seven mothers of families with children from two Finnish provinces have been interviewed for the study. The material was collected through a semi-structured theme interview and analyzed using qualitative content analysis and thematization. The interviews were conducted between December and January 2019-2020. The study revealed that social support has a significant impact on mothers' coping with their family with children. Families receive the most support from their own social networks. It is hoped that community services will support the well-being of the whole family. Mothers' experiences revealed beliefs and outside attitudes about coping culture that partially prevented them from seeking or getting services. Mothers hope that support will be offered automatically.
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(2018)Objectives. People are considering more and more the consequences of their choices and everyone’s decisions are motivated by different values and attitudes. Individuals have the easiest chance to influence on food waste in households by their own choices and behavior. When food ends up as waste, the environmental impact of its ingredients’ producing, and processing have been generated for nothing. The previous research show, that the formation of food waste is mostly influenced by the lack of planning when buying groceries, busy everyday life, the difficult predictability of children’s eating and plate leftovers on top of spoilage of food. The aim of this study is to examine how the parents of families with children see food waste as part of sustainable housekeeping, and how their everyday choices have impact on their household’s food waste. Methods. Qualitative methods were used in the research and the data were gathered with semi-structured theme interviews. Seven parents of families with children were interviewed. The data were qualitatively analyzed into themes by combining reduced expressions into categories and further into larger themes. Six themes were found, and the data were analyzed abductively. Results and conclusions. The interviewees felt, that the amount of food waste in their households was not plentiful and their stance on food waste was negative. Reducing and preventing food waste was being paid attention to by planning and taking care of preservation of food. However, it was not possible to prevent food waste completely, because there were hustle and unexpected things in the families’ everyday life and children’s eating frequently resulted in food waste. In terms of consumption choices there were differences between the interviewees and different values influenced on consuming.
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(2015)Objective. The main purpose of this study is to examine what families with children living in urban areas think about self-preparedness and emergency food supply kits nowadays. Study shows how study subjects understand terms "emergency food supply kit" and "self-preparedness", what they think about their own emergency food supply kits and the necessity of it in urban areas. Furthermore study explains the pros and cons of the newest Kotivara-guide from family perspective. Previous studies have shown that there are too little researches about these topics and the fact that self-preparedness is becoming more common. Method. This was a qualitative research with phenomenographic features and which research data were collected using half structural thematic interviews. Nine families with children were selected for research and by change only women were interviewed. All families were living in Kiukainen. Transcribed research data were analyzed with content analysis. Results and conclusions. The term "emergency food supply kit" (kotivara) was more familiar than "self-preparedness" (omatoiminen varautuminen) and "emergency food supply kit" was typically only related to food storing. All families had subconsciously own emergency food supply kit that probably, however, lacked iodine pills, battery powered radio, cash money and water. Own emergency food supply kit was seen to have a major role in urban areas since it helps in exceptional situations and also in normal daily life. Electricity blackout was said to be the most typical exceptional situation nowadays. As for the findings about guidance, families suggested that the Kotivara-guide could be distributed in child health clinics, family centers and schools. According to research subjects, Kotivara-guide should also have the old guides about foods and other things to store. Based on the results of this research, Finnish emergency food supply kit guidance, Kotivara, is still important thing. In order to improve and be more familiar in Finland, informing should be more humane and targeted at those with the greatest needs.
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