Working With Parents to Prevent Childhood Obesity: Protocol for a Primary Care-Based eHealth Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parents play a central role in preventing childhood obesity. There is a need for innovative, scalable, and evidence-based interventions designed to enhance parents' motivation to support and sustain healthy lifestyle behaviors in their children, which can facilitate obesity prevention.

Objective

(1) Develop an online screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) eHealth tool to enhance parents' concern for, and motivation to, support children's healthy lifestyle behaviors, (2) refine the SBIRT eHealth tool by assessing end-user acceptability, satisfaction, and usability through focus groups, and (3) determine feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of the refined SBIRT eHealth tool through a randomized controlled trial.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Avis JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4390613 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature