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- Title
Steps to Growing Up Healthy: a pediatric primary care based obesity prevention program for young children.
- Authors
Gorin, Amy A; Wiley, James; Ohannessian, Christine McCauley; Hernandez, Dominica; Grant, Autherene; Cloutier, Michelle M
- Abstract
Leading medical organizations have called on primary care pediatricians to take a central role in the prevention of childhood obesity. Weight counseling typically has not been incorporated into routine pediatric practice due to time and training constraints. Brief interventions with simple behavior change messages are needed to reach high-risk children, particularly Latino and Black children who are disproportionately affected by obesity and related comorbidities. Steps to Growing Up Healthy (Added Value) is a randomized controlled trial testing the efficacy of brief motivational counseling (BMC) delivered by primary care clinicians and the added value of supplementing BMC with monthly contact by community health workers (CHW) in the prevention/reversal of obesity in Latino and Black children ages 2-4 years old.
- Publication
BMC public health, 2014, Vol 14, p72
- ISSN
1471-2458
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1186/1471-2458-14-72