The Healthy Kids & Families study: Outcomes of a 24-month childhood obesity prevention intervention.

ABSTRACT: Socioeconomically disadvantaged children experience a high burden of obesity but few interventions address obesity prevention in this population subgroup. The Healthy Kids & Families study tested the effect of a parent-focused community health worker (CHW)-delivered lifestyle intervention to prevent childhood obesity. Participants were child-parent/guardian (Kindergarten to 6th grade at baseline) dyads (n = 247) recruited through schools located in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods in Worcester, MA, USA. Using a quasi-experimental design, the study tested the impact of Healthy Kids & Families, a theory-based, low-intensity, parent-focused, CHW-delivered intervention to improve children's weight, healthy eating and physical activity. The attention-control comparison condition wa

SUBMITTER: Rosal MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9938323 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature