In-home obesity prevention in low-income infants through maternal and social transmission.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Extant obesity efforts have had a limited impact among low-income underserved children, in part because existing programs are limited in terms of their short duration and low dosage, limited accessibility and sustainability; and failure to address barriers faced by diverse low-income families.

Methods

This two-arm, parallel, randomized controlled trial (RCT) tests whether delivering obesity prevention, as part of an ongoing home visitation program (HVP), is an effective approach for primary (infants) and secondary (mothers) obesity prevention among low-income, underserved families. This RCT further examines the role of maternal and social factors as key mechanisms of transmission of infants' obesity risk, and the real-life costs of delivering obesity prevention as

SUBMITTER: de la Haye K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7153402 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature