Implications for Future Research and Practice.
These findings are promising in terms of building a community partnership to influence child health habits and prevent or reduce childhood obesity rates. The project is also consistent with the recommendations by the Whitehouse Task Force on Childhood Obesity Report to the President. [16] That said, a number of study limitations warrant additional evaluation of the approach before concluding it as an effective strategy worth replicating. The lack of a pure control group and consolidation of groups for analyses warrants caution in drawing conclusions.