Utilizing a Board Game to Measure Family/Parenting Factors and Childhood Obesity Risk.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe a direct observational approach (ie, interactive family board game) to measure familyfunctioning and parenting behaviors of relevance to child weight and weight-related behaviors and to examine family functioning and parenting factors from multiple family dyads (eg, siblings, parent-child) and their associations with child weight and weight-related behaviors.

Design

Cross-sectional, mixed-methods study.

Setting

Two home visits were conducted with families 10days apart with a 7-day observational period between home visits.

Participants

Children (n = 150) aged 5-7years and their families from 1 of 6 racial and ethnic or immigrant and refugee groups, including African American, Hispanic, Hmong, Native American, Somali, and white, participated

SUBMITTER: Berge JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6461500 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature