Designing an Adaptive Adolescent Physical Activity and Nutrition Intervention for COVID-19-Related Health Challenges: Formative Research Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With rates of childhood obesity continually increasing, effective physical activity and nutrition interventions are needed. Formative research is used to tailor interventions to different cultural and geographic contexts and can be vital in adapting intervention strategies in the face of significant disruptive circumstances (like COVID-19).

Objective

We conducted formative research via in-person and web-based focus groups among middle schoolers and parents to better understand the facilitators and barriers to physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption and to inform the design of a large intervention for a low-income, urban setting in the US Midwest.

Methods

We conducted 2 phases of qualitative focus groups with parents (n=20) and 6th-9th grade mi

SUBMITTER: Grimes A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8785954 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature