Core Research Project
Healthy Kids & Families was the applied research project of the UMass Chan Prevention Research Center. It tested the impact of a community health worker-delivered intervention aimed at helping families overcome barriers to childhood obesity prevention. The intervention was compared to a comparison condition aimed at helping families improve positive parenting skills.
PRC Investigators: Milagros C. Rosal, PhD, Wenjun Li, PhD
Funder: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dates: 2014-2019
Publications:
Rosal MC, Lemon SC, Borg A, Lopez-Cepero A, Sreedhara M, Silfee V, Pbert L, Kane K, Li W. Corrigendum to "The Healthy Kids & Families study: Outcomes of a 24-month childhood obesity prevention intervention" [Prev. Med. Rep. 31 (2023) 102086]. Prev Med Rep. 2023 Jun 22;35:102295. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2023.102295. Erratum for: Prev Med Rep. 2022 Dec 07;31:102086. PMID: 37752983; PMCID: PMC10518759.
Borg A, Haughton CF, Sawyer M, Lemon SC, Kane K, Pbert L, Li W, Rosal MC. Design and methods of the Healthy Kids & Families study: a parent-focused community health worker-delivered childhood obesity prevention intervention. BMC Obes. 2019 Jun 3;6:19. doi: 10.1186/s40608-019-0240-x. PMID: 31171975; PMCID: PMC6545743.
