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Impact of a Healthy Weight Intervention Embedded Within a National Home Visiting Program on the Home Food Environment

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Public Health, June 2018
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Title
Impact of a Healthy Weight Intervention Embedded Within a National Home Visiting Program on the Home Food Environment
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Frontiers in Public Health, June 2018
DOI 10.3389/fpubh.2018.00178
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Rachel G. Tabak, Alexandra B. Morshed, Cynthia D. Schwarz, Debra Haire-Joshu

Abstract

Purpose: To determine whether a lifestyle intervention embedded within Parents as Teachers (PAT), a national child development and parenting home visiting program, helped families make food-related home environment changes. Design: Secondary data analysis of a stratified randomized pragmatic trial. (Trial Registration: This study is registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov NCT01567033). Setting: Participant homes in St. Louis, Missouri. Subjects: Women (n = 179 with pre-post data, of 230 with baseline) participating in standard PAT, with overweight or obesity, and at least one preschool child with BMI percentile ≥60%. Intervention: PAT + Healthy Eating and Active Living Taught at Home (HEALTH), embedded elements of the Diabetes Prevention Program within the standard PAT curriculum. PAT + HEALTH addressed specific behaviors that impact caloric intake (e.g., sugar-sweetened beverages), focusing on behavioral and environmental strategies. Consistent with PAT practice, the frequency, number, and focus (i.e., time spent on intervention components) of home visits were determined by the family's needs; dose structure was flexible [on average intervention: 23 (SD = 9), usual care: 13 (SD = 6) visits]. Measures: Food availability/accessibility and distractions in the home were assessed with items drawn largely from the HomeSTEAD Survey. Analysis: Generalized estimating equations (GEEs) were used to test equality of changes between baseline and 24 months in the intervention and usual care groups. Results: The only significant difference in the pattern of change between usual care and intervention was soda availability/accessibility (p = 0.013). Conclusion: This embedded intervention successfully reduced availability/accessibility of sugar-sweetened beverages in the home. However, given the limited impact on other food-related home environment factors, future interventions could seek to more effectively intervene on all aspects of the home environment.

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Unknown 89 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 12%
Student > Master 9 10%
Researcher 8 9%
Student > Bachelor 6 7%
Other 12 13%
Unknown 31 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 15 17%
Social Sciences 12 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 13%
Psychology 8 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 1%
Other 7 8%
Unknown 34 38%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 July 2018.
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