A randomized clinical trial of the effects of parent mentors on early childhood obesity: Study design and baseline data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Few effective community-based interventions exist for early childhood obesity. Parent mentors have been successful as an intervention for other conditions, but have not been used in childhood obesity. We designed an intervention for early childhood obesity using parent mentors and a positive outlier approach to assess potential efficacy, feasibility, and acceptability.

Methods

This trial enrolled obese (≥ 95th BMI percentile for age and gender) 2-5-year-old children in a Head Start program and their parents, with allocation to either parent mentors trained in positively deviant behaviors regarding childhood obesity, or community health workers delivering health education on obesity-related behaviors. The primary outcome is body mass index z-score change at the six

SUBMITTER: Foster BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4674310 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature