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- Title
Early Childhood Obesity Among Underserved Families: A Multilevel Community–Academic Partnership.
- Authors
Deavenport-Saman, Alexis; Piridzhanyan, Anet; Solomon, Olga; Phillips, Zoe; Kuo, Tony; Yin, Larry
- Abstract
A community–academic partnership, based on a social–ecological framework, addressed pediatric obesity by implementing a multilevel intervention for underserved families in Los Angeles, California. Individual- and interpersonal-level outcomes included significant positive changes in preschoolers' identification of unhealthy foods and in parents' shopping, cooking, and parenting behaviors. Organizational-, community-, and policy-level outcomes included healthy options at restaurants and a coalition supporting a parental initiative to create healthy checkout aisles in supermarkets. The multilevel intervention demonstrated favorable results using descriptive statistics and the paired-samples t -test.
- Subjects
CALIFORNIA; PREVENTION of childhood obesity; ACADEMIC medical centers; BEHAVIOR modification; CHILDREN'S health; COMMUNITY health services; CONCEPTUAL structures; COOKING; ECOLOGY; FAMILIES; INTERPERSONAL relations; INTERPROFESSIONAL relations; HEALTH policy; RESTAURANTS; SHOPPING; SOCIOECONOMIC factors
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2019, Vol 109, Issue 4, p593
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.2018.304906