A Community Resource Map to Support Clinical-Community Linkages in a Randomized Controlled Trial of Childhood Obesity, Eastern Massachusetts, 2014-2016.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Novel approaches to health care delivery that leverage community resources could improve outcomes for children at high risk for obesity.

Community context

We describe the process by which we created an online interactive community resources map for use in the Connect for Health randomized controlled trial. The trial was conducted in the 6 pediatric practices that cared for the highest percentage of children with overweight or obesity within a large multi-specialty group practice in eastern Massachusetts.

Methods

By using semistructured interviews with parents and community partners and geographic information systems (GIS), we created and validated a community resource map for use in a randomized controlled trial for childhood obesity. We conducted semistruc

SUBMITTER: Fiechtner L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5510302 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature