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- Title
Walking the talk: Fit WIC wellness programs improve self-efficacy in pediatric obesity prevention counseling.
- Authors
Crawford, Patricia B; Gosliner, Wendi; Strode, Poppy; Samuels, Sarah E; Burnett, Claudia; Craypo, Lisa; Yancey, Antronette K
- Abstract
Six sites of the California Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) participated in a staff wellness pilot intervention designed to improve staff self-efficacy in counseling WIC clients about childhood overweight. A pre-post test design with intervention and control groups was used; outcome measures included staff perceptions of the intervention's effects on the workplace environment, their personal habits and health beliefs, and their counseling self-efficacy. Intervention site staff were more likely to report that the workplace environment supported their efforts to make healthy food choices (P <.001), be physically active (P <.01), make positive changes in counseling parents about their children's weight (P <.01), and feel more comfortable in encouraging WIC clients to do physical activities with their children (P <.05).
- Publication
American journal of public health, 2004, Vol 94, Issue 9, p1480
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.2105/ajph.94.9.1480