Developing an award program for children's settings to support healthy eating and physical activity and reduce the risk of overweight and obesity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This paper aimed to identify the best way to engage, motivate and support early childhood services (ECS) and primary schools (PS) to create policy and practise changes to promote healthy eating and physical activity. This information would be used to develop a suitable program to implement within these children's settings to reduce the risk of childhood overweight and obesity.

Methods

The Medical Research Council's (UK) framework for the design and evaluation of complex interventions was used to guide the development of the healthy eating and physical activity program suitable for ECS and PS. Within this framework a range of evaluation methods, including stakeholder planning, in-depth interviews with ECS and PS staff and acceptability and feasibility trials in one

SUBMITTER: Honisett S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2754461 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature