A Multicomponent Intervention Helped Reduce Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake in Economically Disadvantaged Hispanic Children

• Published in: American journal of health promotion Vol. 30; no. 8; pp. 594 - 603
• Main Authors: Feng, Du, Song, Huaxin, Esperat, M. Christina, Black, Ipuna
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.11.2016; American Journal of Health Promotion
• Subjects: Acculturation; Anthropometry; Beverages - statistics & numerical data; Body Mass Index; Body measurements; Body weight; Body Weights and Measures; Child; Child poverty; Child, Preschool; Childhood; Childhood obesity; Children; Children & youth; Diet; Disadvantaged; Drinks; Elementary schools; Exercise; Families & family life; Fast food; Health promotion; Health Promotion - organization & administration; Healthy Lifestyle; Hispanic Americans; Hispanic people; Humans; Intervention; Longitudinal Studies; Low income groups; Obesity; Parents & parenting; Pediatric Obesity - ethnology; Pediatric Obesity - prevention & control; Poverty; Quasi-experimental methods; Research design; Risk factors; Socioeconomic Factors; Sugar; Sweetening Agents; Television; Texas; Manuscript format: research; Strategy: education and behavior change; Target population circumstances (specify all that apply): low-income, west Texas, and Hispanic; Body Mass Index (BMI); Childhood Obesity; Prevention Research; Target population age: youth; Research purpose: intervention testing/program evaluation and modeling/relationship testing; Study design: quasi-experimental; Outcome measure: behavioral, anthropometric, and survey; Health focus: nutrition, weight control and physical activity; Hispanic; Growth Curve Analysis; Setting: family and school; Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
• ISSN: 0890-1171; 2168-6602
• DOI: 10.4278/ajhp.140801-QUAN-384

Purpose. This study aimed to examine the effect of a multicomponent intervention program on consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), and lifestyle factors associated with SSB intake, in Hispanic children from low-income families. Design. A five-wave longitudinal study using a quasi-experimen...