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Evaluating The Effectiveness Of The Utah County Fit Wic Program, Elizabeth R. Nixon
Evaluating The Effectiveness Of The Utah County Fit Wic Program, Elizabeth R. Nixon
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
Childhood overweight and obesity is a growing problem across America. Public health interventions are needed to help address this problem. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness and outcomes of the Utah County Fit WIC Program – which was initiated to address the needs of children who are overweight or at-risk of overweight based on Body Mass Index (BMI)-for-age.
Data was collected over the course of one year to examine associations between discussion of child’s weight and goal setting with parent(s)/caregiver(s) and changes in participants’ (n=167) BMI-for-age. The mean BMI-for-age decreased for participants studied across a one …