Open AccessShape Up Somerville: Change in Parent Body Mass Indexes During a Child-Targeted, Community-Based Environmental Change Intervention
Author(s) -
Edward Coffield,
Allison J. Nihiser,
Bettylou Sherry,
Christina D. Economos
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2014.302361
Subject(s) - body mass index , medicine , childhood obesity , obesity , intervention (counseling) , confidence interval , demography , community health , weight change , gerontology , environmental health , overweight , public health , weight loss , psychiatry , nursing , pathology , sociology
We investigated the body mass index (BMI; weight in pounds/[height in inches](2) × 703) of parents whose children participated in Shape Up Somerville (SUS), a community-based participatory research study that altered household, school, and community environments to prevent and reduce childhood obesity.