Latino Families, Primary Care, and Childhood Obesity

A Randomized Controlled Trial

Latino families more willing to participate in group classes and health coaching to control childhood obesity.

Latino children face multiple barriers to maintaining a healthy weight: lack of affordable healthy foods and dangerous neighborhoods.

These researchers designed a family-centered, community health center intervention to treat obesity.

Caregivers and children attended five weekly interactive group classes and received education about nutrition, physical activity, and stress management. Participants also received periodic coaching over six months (in person or by phone), to help them make lifestyle changes. Overall no differences were found in body mass index, metabolic markers, or activity levels between participants and a control group.

“These findings may be due to families requiring a more-intensive intervention that includes scheduled coaching and/or changes to the environmental context. The lack of significant findings may also be due to the small sample size,” the authors write.

A Research Network to Prevent Obesity Among Latino Children

  1. 1 An Introduction to Salud America!
  2. 2 Salud America! A National Research Network to Build the Field and Evidence to Prevent Latino Childhood Obesity
  3. 3 Salud Tiene Sabor
  4. 4 Growing Healthy Kids
  5. 5 Afterschool Program Participation, Youth Physical Fitness, and Overweight
  6. 6 Bridging Research and Policy to Address Childhood Obesity Among Border Hispanics
  7. 7 Combining Photovoice and Focus Groups
  8. 8 Latina Voices in Childhood Obesity
  9. 9 Latino Church Leaders' Perspectives on Childhood Obesity Prevention
  10. 10 Video Game-Based Exercise, Latino Children's Physical Health, and Academic Achievement
  11. 11 Latino Families, Primary Care, and Childhood Obesity
  12. 12 Summer and Follow-Up Interventions to Affect Adiposity with Mothers and Daughters
  13. 13 Food Purchasing Selection Among Low-Income, Spanish-Speaking Latinos
  14. 14 Obesity Among Latino Children Within a Migrant Farmworker Community
  15. 15 Exploring Potential Research Contributions to Policy
  16. 16 Seeking Environmental and Policy Solutions to Address Latino Childhood Obesity
  17. 17 Building Strategies and Leadership for Change
  18. 18 San Antonio as a Face of the Future

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