Pilot survey of a novel incentive to promote healthy behavior among school children and their parents.

ABSTRACT: Reversing the obesity epidemic has been a persistent global public health challenge, particularly among low socioeconomic status populations and racial/ethnic minorities. We developed a novel concept of community-based incentives to approach this problem in such communities. Applying this concept, we proposed a school intervention to promote obesity prevention in the U.S. We conducted a pilot survey to explore attitudes towards this future intervention. The survey was collected as a nonprobability sample (N = 137 school-aged children (5-12 years)) in northern California in July 2013. We implemented multivariable logistic regression analyses where the dependent variable indicated the intention to participate in the future intervention. The covariates included the body mass index (BMI) based

SUBMITTER: Yoo BK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5388936 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature