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- Title
FirstStep2Health: A cluster randomised trial to promote healthy behaviours and prevent obesity amongst low‐income preschoolers.
- Authors
Ling, Jiying; Suriyawong, Wachira; Robbins, Lorraine B.; Zhang, Nanhua; Kerver, Jean M.
- Abstract
Summary: Objective: To evaluate the preliminary effects of a theory‐based, multi‐component intervention on improving healthy lifestyle behaviours and preventing obesity amongst low‐income preschoolers. Methods: A cluster randomised controlled trial was conducted at 10 daycare centres. The 16‐week FirstStep2Health intervention, grounded in the Actor‐Partner Interdependence Model and the Social Cognitive Theory, included five components: a Facebook‐based parent programme, three virtual parent meetings, three weekly motivational text messages, parent–child learning via weekly child letters and daycare centre‐based child programme. Results: A total of 95 preschoolers (53 intervention and 42 control) participated. Preschoolers' mean age was 49.27 months, with 57.9% being female, 12.6% being Hispanic and 40% being African American. The intervention significantly decreased intervention preschoolers' fat intake (B = −33.76, p = 0.047) and % body fat (B = −1.18, p = 0.036) compared to the control. During year 2, there were significant intervention effects on increasing skin carotenoids (B = 87.06, p = 0.035). Although not statistically significant, the intervention showed positive effects on increasing preschoolers' fruit/vegetable intake; and decreasing screen time, body mass index z‐score and proportion of overweight/obesity. Conclusions: Even with some potential limitations (small sample size, measurement concerns and confounding with Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic), the study's results support the preliminary efficacy of the FirstStep2Health intervention in preventing obesity amongst low‐income racially diverse preschoolers.
- Subjects
MOTIVATIONAL interviewing; FRUIT; BEHAVIOR modification; ADIPOSE tissues; FOOD consumption; BODY mass index; RESEARCH funding; T-test (Statistics); STATISTICAL sampling; CAROTENOIDS; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; SCREEN time; FAMILIES; CHI-squared test; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; SOCIAL learning theory; HEALTH behavior; ECONOMIC impact; VEGETABLES; CONCEPTUAL structures; CHILDHOOD obesity; ANTHROPOMETRY; DATA analysis software; POVERTY; OBESITY
- Publication
Pediatric Obesity, 2024, Vol 19, Issue 7, p1
- ISSN
2047-6302
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ijpo.13122