Impact of a Healthy Weight Intervention Embedded Within a National Home Visiting Program on the Home Food Environment.

ABSTRACT: Purpose: To determine whether a lifestyle intervention embedded within Parents as Teachers (PAT), a national child development and parenting home visiting program, helped families make food-related home environment changes. Design: Secondary data analysis of a stratified randomized pragmatic trial. (Trial Registration: This study is registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov NCT01567033). Setting: Participant homes in St. Louis, Missouri. Subjects: Women (n = 179 with pre-post data, of 230 with baseline) participating in standard PAT, with overweight or obesity, and at least one preschool child with BMI percentile ≥60%. Intervention: PAT + Healthy Eating and Active Living Taught at Home (HEALTH), embedded elements of the Diabetes Prevention Program withi

SUBMITTER: Tabak RG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6028746 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature