Background: Social marketing integrates communication campaigns with behavioural and environmental change
strategies. Childhood obesity programs could benefit significantly from social marketing but communication
campaigns on this issue tend to be stand-alone.
Methods: A large-scale multi-setting child obesity prevention program was implemented in the Hunter New
England (HNE) region of New South Wales (NSW), Australia from 2005–2010. The program included a series of
communication campaigns promoting the program and its key messages: drinking water; getting physically active
and; eating more vegetables and fruit. Pre-post telephone surveys (n = 9) were undertaken to evaluate awareness of
the campaigns among parents of children aged 2–15 years using repeat cross-sections of randomly selected
cohorts. A total of 1,367 parents (HNE = 748, NSW = 619) participated.
Results: At each survey post baseline, HNE parents were significantly more likely to have seen, read or heard about
the program and its messages in the media than parents in the remainder of the state (p < 0.001). Further, there
was a significant increase in awareness of the program and each of its messages over time in HNE compared to no
change over time in NSW (p < 0.001). Awareness was significantly higher (p < 0.05) in HNE compared to NSW after
each specific campaign (except the vegetable one) and significantly higher awareness levels were sustained for
each campaign until the end of the program. At the end of the program participants without a tertiary education
were significantly more likely (p = 0.04) to be aware of the brand campaign (31%) than those with (20%) but there
were no other statistically significant socio-demographic differences in awareness.
Conclusions: The Good for Kids communication campaigns increased and maintained awareness of childhood
obesity prevention messages. Moreover, messages were delivered equitably to diverse socio-demographic groups
within the region
Methods: This was a practice-based 6-month intervention at Maccabi Health Care Services, an Israeli health maintenance organization, consisting of parental education, individual child consultation, and physical activity classes. We included in the intervention 100 obese or overweight children aged 5 to 14 years and their parents and 943 comparison children and their parents. Changes in body mass index z-scores, adjusted for socioeconomic status, were analyzed, with a follow-up at 14 months and a delayed follow-up at an average of 46.7 months.
Results: The mean z-score after the intervention was lower in the intervention group compared to the comparison group (1.74 and 1.95, respectively; P = .019). The intervention group sustained the reduction in z-score after an average of 46.7 months (P < .001). Of the overweight or obese children, 13% became normal weight after the intervention, compared with 4% of the comparison children.
Conclusion: This multidisciplinary team treatment of children and their parents in family health care clinics positively affected measures of childhood obesity. Additional randomized trials are required to verify these findings.
Background: Social marketing integrates communication campaigns with behavioural and environmental change
strategies. Childhood obesity programs could benefit significantly from social marketing but communication
campaigns on this issue tend to be stand-alone.
Methods: A large-scale multi-setting child obesity prevention program was implemented in the Hunter New
England (HNE) region of New South Wales (NSW), Australia from 2005–2010. The program included a series of
communication campaigns promoting the program and its key messages: drinking water; getting physically active
and; eating more vegetables and fruit. Pre-post telephone surveys (n = 9) were undertaken to evaluate awareness of
the campaigns among parents of children aged 2–15 years using repeat cross-sections of randomly selected
cohorts. A total of 1,367 parents (HNE = 748, NSW = 619) participated.
Results: At each survey post baseline, HNE parents were significantly more likely to have seen, read or heard about
the program and its messages in the media than parents in the remainder of the state (p < 0.001). Further, there
was a significant increase in awareness of the program and each of its messages over time in HNE compared to no
change over time in NSW (p < 0.001). Awareness was significantly higher (p < 0.05) in HNE compared to NSW after
each specific campaign (except the vegetable one) and significantly higher awareness levels were sustained for
each campaign until the end of the program. At the end of the program participants without a tertiary education
were significantly more likely (p = 0.04) to be aware of the brand campaign (31%) than those with (20%) but there
were no other statistically significant socio-demographic differences in awareness.
Conclusions: The Good for Kids communication campaigns increased and maintained awareness of childhood
obesity prevention messages. Moreover, messages were delivered equitably to diverse socio-demographic groups
within the region
Methods: This was a practice-based 6-month intervention at Maccabi Health Care Services, an Israeli health maintenance organization, consisting of parental education, individual child consultation, and physical activity classes. We included in the intervention 100 obese or overweight children aged 5 to 14 years and their parents and 943 comparison children and their parents. Changes in body mass index z-scores, adjusted for socioeconomic status, were analyzed, with a follow-up at 14 months and a delayed follow-up at an average of 46.7 months.
Results: The mean z-score after the intervention was lower in the intervention group compared to the comparison group (1.74 and 1.95, respectively; P = .019). The intervention group sustained the reduction in z-score after an average of 46.7 months (P < .001). Of the overweight or obese children, 13% became normal weight after the intervention, compared with 4% of the comparison children.
Conclusion: This multidisciplinary team treatment of children and their parents in family health care clinics positively affected measures of childhood obesity. Additional randomized trials are required to verify these findings.
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Background: Social marketing integrates communication campaigns with behavioural and environmental change
strategies. Childhood obesity programs could benefit significantly from social marketing but communication
campaigns on this issue tend to be stand-alone.
Methods: A large-scale multi-setting child obesity prevention program was implemented in the Hunter New
England (HNE) region of New South Wales (NSW), Australia from 2005–2010. The program included a series of
communication campaigns promoting the program and its key messages: drinking water; getting physically active
and; eating more vegetables and fruit. Pre-post telephone surveys (n = 9) were undertaken to evaluate awareness of
the campaigns among parents of children aged 2–15 years using repeat cross-sections of randomly selected
cohorts. A total of 1,367 parents (HNE = 748, NSW = 619) participated.
Results: At each survey post baseline, HNE parents were significantly more likely to have seen, read or heard about
the program and its messages in the media than parents in the remainder of the state (p < 0.001). Further, there
was a significant increase in awareness of the program and each of its messages over time in HNE compared to no
change over time in NSW (p < 0.001). Awareness was significantly higher (p < 0.05) in HNE compared to NSW after
each specific campaign (except the vegetable one) and significantly higher awareness levels were sustained for
each campaign until the end of the program. At the end of the program participants without a tertiary education
were significantly more likely (p = 0.04) to be aware of the brand campaign (31%) than those with (20%) but there
were no other statistically significant socio-demographic differences in awareness.
Conclusions: The Good for Kids communication campaigns increased and maintained awareness of childhood
obesity prevention messages. Moreover, messages were delivered equitably to diverse socio-demographic groups
within the region
Methods: This was a practice-based 6-month intervention at Maccabi Health Care Services, an Israeli health maintenance organization, consisting of parental education, individual child consultation, and physical activity classes. We included in the intervention 100 obese or overweight children aged 5 to 14 years and their parents and 943 comparison children and their parents. Changes in body mass index z-scores, adjusted for socioeconomic status, were analyzed, with a follow-up at 14 months and a delayed follow-up at an average of 46.7 months.
Results: The mean z-score after the intervention was lower in the intervention group compared to the comparison group (1.74 and 1.95, respectively; P = .019). The intervention group sustained the reduction in z-score after an average of 46.7 months (P < .001). Of the overweight or obese children, 13% became normal weight after the intervention, compared with 4% of the comparison children.
Conclusion: This multidisciplinary team treatment of children and their parents in family health care clinics positively affected measures of childhood obesity. Additional randomized trials are required to verify these findings.
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