B'More Healthy Communities for Kids: design of a multi-level intervention for obesity prevention for low-income African American children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Childhood obesity rates in the U.S. have reached epidemic proportions, and an urgent need remains to identify evidence-based strategies for prevention and treatment. Multi-level, multi-component interventions are needed due to the multi-factorial nature of obesity, and its proven links to both the social and built environment. However, there are huge gaps in the literature related to doing these kinds of interventions among low-income, urban, minority groups.

Methods

The B'More Healthy Communities for Kids (BHCK) intervention is a multi-level, multi-component intervention, targeting low-income African American youth ages 10-14 and their families in Baltimore, Maryland. This intervention prevents childhood obesity by working at multiple levels of the food and socia

SUBMITTER: Gittelsohn J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4168194 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature