Rationale, design, and methodology for the healthy mothers-healthy children study: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hispanic women and children who become overweight or obese are at risk for developing prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease later in life. Interdisciplinary interventions which target Hispanic women and their 3-5-year old children to improve nutrition and physical activity behaviors, manage adiposity and weight in mothers, and prevent excessive adiposity and weight gain trajectory in their children offer promise to break the intergenerational cycle.

Methods

Using a randomized two-group, repeated measures experimental design, the goal of the proposed study is to investigate the efficacy of a 12-week nutrition and physical activity program including education, coping skills training, and home-based intervention in Hispanic women and their 3-5-year

SUBMITTER: Berry DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7050912 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature