A family based intervention targeting parents of preschool children with overweight and obesity: Conceptual framework and study design of LOOPS - Lund Overweight and Obesity Preschool Study
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Summary, in English
As the rate of overweight among children is rising there is a need for evidence-based research that will clarify what the best interventional strategies to normalize weight development are. The overall aim of the Lund Overweight and Obesity Preschool Study (LOOPS) is to evaluate if a family-based intervention, targeting parents of preschool children with overweight and obesity, has a long-term positive effect on weight development of the children. The hypothesis is that preschool children with overweight and obesity, whose parents participate in a one-year intervention, both at completion of the one-year intervention and at long term follow up (2-, 3- and 5-years) will have reduced their BMI-for-age z-score.
Publiceringsår
2012
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
BMC Public Health
Volym
12
Issue
Article nr. 12
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
BioMed Central (BMC)
Ämne
- Nutrition and Dietetics
Nyckelord
- Intervention study
- Parent
- Child
- Obesity
- Preschool
- Overweight
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1471-2458