Objectives To evaluate the impact of the GOALS (Getting Our Active Lifestyles Started) family-based childhood obesity treatment intervention during the first 3 years of implementation. Design Single-group repeated measures with qualitative questionnaires. Setting Community venues in a socioeconomically deprived, urban location in the North-West of England. Participants 70 overweight or obese children (mean age 10.5 years, 46% boys) and their parents/carers who completed GOALS between September 2006 and March 2009. Interventions GOALS was a childhood obesity treatment intervention that drew on social cognitive theory to promote whole family lifestyle change. Sessions covered physical activity (PA), diet and behaviour change over ...
Background: Effective programmes to help children manage their weight are required. 'Families for He...
Childhood obesity is a major public health concern. Recent data suggests although childhood obesity ...
Background: A growing body of evidence advocates a multidisciplinary, family-focused approach to chi...
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the impact of the GOALS (Getting Our Active Lifestyles Started) family-based...
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the impact of the GOALS (Getting Our Active Lifestyles Started) family-based...
Childhood obesity is the most serious public health challenge of the 21st century. Whilst evidence s...
Objectives - To develop and pilot a community-based family programme, ‘Families for Health’, for in...
The prevalence of childhood obesity has risen dramatically in recent years, yet little is known abou...
OBJECTIVES: To assess how outcomes associated with participation in a family-based weight management...
Objective - To develop and evaluate ‘Families for Health’ - a new community based family interventio...
Background: The high prevalence of obesity in children in the UK warrants continuing public health ...
Background Effective programmes to help children manage their weight are required. ‘Families for He...
Background and aims: Impaired eating habits and reduced physical activity have become associated wit...
Background: Childhood overweight is unequally distributed by ethnicity and socioeconomic circumstanc...
Childhood obesity is considered to be the greatest public health risk to children today, placing you...
Background: Effective programmes to help children manage their weight are required. 'Families for He...
Childhood obesity is a major public health concern. Recent data suggests although childhood obesity ...
Background: A growing body of evidence advocates a multidisciplinary, family-focused approach to chi...
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the impact of the GOALS (Getting Our Active Lifestyles Started) family-based...
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the impact of the GOALS (Getting Our Active Lifestyles Started) family-based...
Childhood obesity is the most serious public health challenge of the 21st century. Whilst evidence s...
Objectives - To develop and pilot a community-based family programme, ‘Families for Health’, for in...
The prevalence of childhood obesity has risen dramatically in recent years, yet little is known abou...
OBJECTIVES: To assess how outcomes associated with participation in a family-based weight management...
Objective - To develop and evaluate ‘Families for Health’ - a new community based family interventio...
Background: The high prevalence of obesity in children in the UK warrants continuing public health ...
Background Effective programmes to help children manage their weight are required. ‘Families for He...
Background and aims: Impaired eating habits and reduced physical activity have become associated wit...
Background: Childhood overweight is unequally distributed by ethnicity and socioeconomic circumstanc...
Childhood obesity is considered to be the greatest public health risk to children today, placing you...
Background: Effective programmes to help children manage their weight are required. 'Families for He...
Childhood obesity is a major public health concern. Recent data suggests although childhood obesity ...
Background: A growing body of evidence advocates a multidisciplinary, family-focused approach to chi...