Feasibility of standardized methods to specify behavioral pediatric obesity prevention interventions.

ABSTRACT: Standardized methods are needed to evaluate what occurs within the 'black box' of behavioral interventions to prevent pediatric obesity. The purpose of this research is to evaluate methods to specify the behavior change techniques used and the amount of time spent discussing target weight-related behaviors in an intervention for parents of children at risk for becoming overweight or obese. Independent coders were trained to identify behavior change techniques and time spent discussing weight-related behaviors in audio recordings and transcripts of intervention sessions from 100 randomly selected participants. The behavior change technique taxonomy (BCTTv1) was used to code techniques present in sessions. A newly-developed tool was used to code time spent discussing each target weight-relat

SUBMITTER: JaKa MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5755711 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature