Development, Implementation, and Process Evaluation of Bukhali: An Intervention from Preconception to Early Childhood.

ABSTRACT: The Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative, an international consortium developed in partnership with the World Health Organization, is addressing childhood obesity from a life-course perspective. It hypothesises that an integrated complex intervention from preconception, through pregnancy, infancy and early childhood, will reduce childhood adiposity and non-communicable disease risk, and improve child development. As part of the Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative in South Africa, the Bukhali randomised controlled trial is being conducted with 18-28-year-old women in Soweto, where young women face numerous challenges to their physical and mental health. The aims of this paper were to describe the intervention development process (including adaptations), intervention components, and

SUBMITTER: Draper CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10007644 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature