Shape Up Somerville: Change in Parent Body Mass Indexes During a Child-Targeted, Community-Based Environmental Change Intervention | Zendy

Edward Coffield | Zendy; Allison J. Nihiser | Zendy; Bettylou Sherry | Zendy; Christina D. Economos | Zendy

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Shape 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 - 2014

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.

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