Proactive Assessment of Obesity Risk during Infancy (ProAsk): a qualitative study of parents' and professionals' perspectives on an mHealth intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prevention of childhood obesity is a public health priority. Interventions that establish healthy growth trajectories early in life promise lifelong benefits to health and wellbeing. Proactive Assessment of Obesity Risk during Infancy (ProAsk) is a novel mHealth intervention designed to enable health professionals to assess an infant's risk of future overweight and motivate parental behaviour change to prevent childhood overweight and obesity. The aim of this study was to explore parents' and health professionals' experiences of the overweight risk communication and behaviour change aspects of this mHealth intervention.

Methods

The study was conducted in four economically deprived localities in the UK. Parents (N = 66) were recruited to the ProAsk feasibility stud

SUBMITTER: Rose J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6417230 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature