Family‐based hip‐hop to health: Outcome results

  • Fitzgibbon M
  • Stolley M
  • Schiffer L
  • et al.
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Abstract Objective: This pilot study tested the feasibility of Family-Based Hip-Hop to Health, a school-based obesity prevention intervention for 3?5-year-old Latino children and their parents, and estimated its effectiveness in producing smaller average changes in BMI at 1-year follow-up. Design and Methods: Four Head Start preschools administered through the Chicago Public Schools were randomly assigned to receive a Family-Based Intervention (FBI) or a General Health Intervention (GHI). Results: Parents signed consent forms for 147 of the 157 children enrolled. Both the school-based and family-based components of the intervention were feasible, but attendance for the parent intervention sessions was low. Contrary to expectations, a downtrend in BMI Z-score was observed in both the intervention and control groups. Conclusions: While the data reflect a downward trend in obesity among these young Hispanic children, obesity rates remained higher at 1-year follow-up (15%) than those reported by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2009?2010) for 2?5-year-old children (12.1%). Developing evidence-based strategies for obesity prevention among Hispanic families remains a challenge.

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Fitzgibbon, M. L., Stolley, M. R., Schiffer, L., Kong, A., Braunschweig, C. L., Gomez‐Perez, S. L., … Dyer, A. R. (2013). Family‐based hip‐hop to health: Outcome results. Obesity, 21(2), 274–283. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.20269

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