Department of Psychology, Montana State University, Bozeman, 59717-3440, USA.
BMC Public Health. 2012 Apr 2;12:255. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-255.
Childhood obesity in rural communities is a serious but understudied problem. The current experiment aims to assess a wide range of obesity risk factors among rural youth and to offer an 8-month intervention program for parents to reduce obesity risk in their preteen child.
METHODS/DESIGN: A two-group, repeated measures design is used to assess the effectiveness of the 4-Health intervention program. Assessments include anthropometric measures, child self-evaluations, parent self-evaluations, and parent evaluations of child. County Extension agents from 21 rural Montana counties recruit approximately 150 parent-child dyads and counties are semi-randomly assigned to the active intervention group (4-Health Educational Program) or a "best-practices" (Healthy Living Information) control group.
This study will shed light on the effectiveness of this parent-only intervention strategy in reducing obesity risk factors among rural preteens. The 4-Health program is designed to provide information and skills development for busy rural parents that will increase healthy lifestyles of their preteen children and improve the parents' ability to intervene effectively in the lives of their families during this critical developmental period.
ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT01510587.
农村社区儿童肥胖是一个严重但研究不足的问题。本实验旨在评估农村青少年的一系列肥胖风险因素，并为父母提供一个为期 8 个月的干预计划，以降低其未成年子女的肥胖风险。
方法/设计：采用两群组、重复测量设计来评估 4-Health 干预计划的效果。评估包括人体测量指标、儿童自我评估、父母自我评估以及父母对儿童的评估。来自 21 个蒙大拿州农村县的县推广代理招募约 150 对父母-子女二人组，各县半随机分配到积极干预组（4-Health 教育计划）或“最佳实践”（健康生活信息）对照组。
本研究将揭示这种仅针对父母的干预策略在降低农村青少年肥胖风险因素方面的有效性。4-Health 计划旨在为忙碌的农村父母提供信息和技能培养，以增加其未成年子女的健康生活方式，并提高父母在这一关键发育时期有效干预家庭生活的能力。
ClinicalTrials.gov 标识符：NCT01510587。
