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Am J Public Health
; 109(4): 593-596, 2019 04.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-30789762
RESUMO
A community-academic partnership, based on a social-ecological framework, addressed pediatric obesity by implementing a multilevel intervention for underserved families in Los Angeles, California. Individual- and interpersonal-level outcomes included significant positive changes in preschoolers' identification of unhealthy foods and in parents' shopping, cooking, and parenting behaviors. Organizational-, community-, and policy-level outcomes included healthy options at restaurants and a coalition supporting a parental initiative to create healthy checkout aisles in supermarkets. The multilevel intervention demonstrated favorable results using descriptive statistics and the paired-samples t-test.