Parental involvement in interventions to improve child dietary intake: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Interventions that aim to improve child dietary quality and reduce disease risk often involve parents. The most effective methods to engage parents remain unclear. A systematic review of interventions designed to change child and adolescent dietary behavior was conducted to answer whether parent involvement enhanced intervention effectiveness, and what type of involvement was most effective in achieving desired outcomes.

Method

In 2008, Pub Med, Medline, Psych Info, and Cochrane Library databases were searched to identify programs designed to change child and adolescent dietary intake that also involved parents. Methods of parental involvement were categorized based on the type and intensity of parental involvement. These methods were compared against intervention

SUBMITTER: Hingle MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2906688 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature