The effect of a behaviour change intervention on the diets and physical activity levels of women attending Sure Start Children's Centres: results from a complex public health intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The UK government's response to the obesity epidemic calls for action in communities to improve people's health behaviour. This study evaluated the effects of a community intervention on dietary quality and levels of physical activity of women from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Design

Non-randomised controlled evaluation of a complex public health intervention.

Participants

527 women attending Sure Start Children's Centres (SSCC) in Southampton (intervention) and 495 women attending SSCCs in Gosport and Havant (control).

Intervention

Training SSCC staff in behaviour change skills that would empower women to change their health behaviours.

Outcomes

Main outcomes dietary quality and physical activity. Intermediate outcomes self-efficacy and sense o

SUBMITTER: Baird J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4120404 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature