Family ties to health program: a randomized intervention to improve vegetable intake in children.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Evaluate a home-based intervention targeted toward parents to improve vegetable intake in preschool-aged children.

Methods

Four-month feasibility study of home-based intervention consisting of 4 tailored newsletters and 2 motivational phone calls compared to control; 4 children's books for the control group; and measured pre and post parent-reported physical and social home environment and child vegetable intake in 22 intervention and 21 control homes with a child 2-5 years old assessed with linear regression of group predicting home environment and diet characteristics post-intervention, adjusting for baseline (P < .05 significant).

Results

Intervention increased availability of vegetables (+1.5 ± 2.5 vegetable types vs -0.3 ± 2.7 vegetable types, P = .02),

SUBMITTER: Tabak RG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4097388 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature