Healthy families study: design of a childhood obesity prevention trial for Hispanic families.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The childhood obesity epidemic disproportionately affects Hispanics. This paper reports on the design of the ongoing Healthy Families Study, a randomized controlled trial testing the efficacy of a community-based, behavioral family intervention to prevent excessive weight gain in Hispanic children using a community-based participatory research approach.

Methods

The study will enroll 272 Hispanic families with children ages 5-7 residing in greater Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Families are randomized to the active weight gain prevention intervention or an alternative intervention focused on oral health. Lay community health promoters implement the interventions primarily in Spanish in a community center. The active intervention was adapted from the We Can! p

SUBMITTER: Zoorob R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3749297 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature