Measuring the intensity of community programs and policies for preventing childhood obesity in a diverse sample of US communities: the Healthy Communities Study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Efforts to address the critical public health problem of childhood obesity are occurring across the USA; however, little is known about how to characterize the intensity of these efforts.

Objectives

The purposes of this study are to describe the intensity of community programs and policies (CPPs) to address childhood obesity in 130 US communities and to examine the extent to which observed CPPs targeted multiple behaviours and employed a comprehensive array of strategies.

Methods

To document CPPs occurring over a 10-year period, key informants were interviewed using a semi-structured interview protocol. Staff coded CPPs for key characteristics related to intensity, including reach, duration and strategy. Three types of CPP scores were calculated for inten

SUBMITTER: Collie-Akers VL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6365005 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature