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Nourish-C: Implementing A Family Based Weight Loss Intervention In A Church Community, Jacqueline Woods
Nourish-C: Implementing A Family Based Weight Loss Intervention In A Church Community, Jacqueline Woods
Theses and Dissertations
Increasing rates of obesity across all race, ethnic, gender, and age groups over the past thirty years have generated significant public health concern. Black children face disproportionately higher risk for overweight and obesity compared with their White peers. Substantial evidence suggests that parent involvement improves pediatric obesity treatment outcomes. Moreover, churches are feasible and culturally congruent places to host health promotion interventions within the Black community. The current study examined the feasibility of disseminating an existing pediatric obesity intervention, NOURISH, in Black church communities. Twenty-five families participated in baseline assessment of the NOURISH-C. Five churches hosted the intervention and eight …