The Healthy Habits, Happy Homes intervention is a home based intervention that uses individually tailored counseling by health educators to encourage behavior change.
The intervention was informed by findings from focus groups with 74 racial/ethnic minority parents of young children.
Major components of the intervention included (1) motivational coaching by a health educator during 4 home visits and 4 health coaching telephone calls, (2) mailed educational materials (e Figure 2 in Supplement) and incentives, and (3) weekly text messages on adoption of household routines.