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John, Jomi, SBai, Sushama, Vijayraghavan, R. |
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Medico-Legal Update; Apr-Jun2021, Vol. 21 Issue 2, p669-675, 7p |
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Background: Obesity is caused due to the mismatch between energy intake and expenditure, with food intake more than the requirements leading to an increase in Body mass index (BMI) as a body measurement parameter1. Parent focused group program is an intervention program where parents are involved in targeting the changes in obesity-related behavior of their obese children. Objectives: To determine the effectiveness of parent-focused group programs on obesity-related behaviors of children aged 6-12 years. Method and Results: The study was conducted in two phases. The first phase included a survey design to identify overweight and obese children from two randomly selected schools as control and experimentalfrom the southern part of Kerala, India. The second phase includedan intervention design with a parent-focused group program for the program's experimental group, and effectiveness was analyzed from children's obesity-related behaviors. The key findings indicated that the parent-focused group program was effective in the pre-test and post-test scores of anthropometric measures in the experimental group for both boys and girls. The study suggested that parent-focused programs effectively bring changesin children's obesity- related behavior, thus reducing the chances of getting overweight/obese. Conclusion: Parent-focused group interventions are effective as a preventive strategy in reducing obesity- related behavior among children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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