A stepwise approach to designing and delivering the SCHeLTI trial community-family-mother-child obesity prevention intervention.

ABSTRACT: This paper describes the methods for the development and implementation of the Sino-Canadian Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (SCHeLTI) intervention, part of a World Health Organization-supported effort to prevent childhood obesity through four international randomized controlled trials. SCHeLTI is a multi-center, cluster-randomized trial in Shanghai, supporting 4500 families from preconception through the child's fifth year. This Community-Family-Mother-Child intervention includes coordinated components such as Healthy Conversation sessions, nutrition consultations, breastfeeding support, an obesity clinic, and educational courses tailored to key reproductive and developmental stages and risk profiles. Guided by implementation science principles, SCHeLTI's development followed four ma

SUBMITTER: De-Jongh Gonzalez O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12274767 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature