Resumen de Early Childhood Obesity Among Underserved Families: A Multilevel Community–Academic Partnership.
Alexis Deavenport-Saman, Anet Piridzhanyan, Olga Solomon, Zoe Phillips, Tony Kuo, Larry Yin
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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
