Weight gain prevention content delivered to mothers: Lessons from an intervention embedded in a community organization.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Transparent reporting of the intervention content study participants receive is particularly important for dissemination and implementation of evidence-based interventions to address obesity. This study explores intervention delivery and perceptions of content when an intervention is embedded within an organization's usual practice and associations with weight outcomes.

Methods

This is a secondary analysis from the Healthy Eating and Active Living Taught at Home (HEALTH) randomized trial. HEALTH is a weight gain prevention intervention embedded within a national home visiting programme (Parents as Teachers, PAT). To be consistent with PAT practice, HEALTH has a suggested but also flexible home visit structure. Therefore, the number and frequency of home visits are

SUBMITTER: Tabak RG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6934432 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature