Abstract
This study evaluated the feasibility of a home-based intervention to reduce sugar-sweetened beverage intake and television viewing among children. Lower income parents of overweight children aged 5–12 years (n = 40) were randomized to a home environment intervention to reduce television viewing with locking devices and displace availability of sugar-sweetened beverages with home delivery of non-caloric beverages (n = 25), or to a no-intervention control group (n = 15) for 6 months. Data were collected at baseline and 6 months. After 6 months, television viewing hours per day was significantly lower in the intervention group compared with the control group (1.7 [SE =.02] vs. 2.6 [SE =.25] hours/day, respectively, P <.01). Sugar-sweetened beverage intake was marginally significantly lower among intervention group compared to control group children (0.21 [SE =.09] vs. 0.45 [SE =.10], respectively, P <.09). Body mass index (BMI) z-score was not significantly lower among intervention compared to control children. Among a lower income sample of children, a home-based intervention reduced television viewing, but not sugar-sweetened beverage intake or BMI z-score.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | e12-e15 |
| Journal | Pediatric Obesity |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 1 2016 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2015 World Obesity
Keywords
- Pediatric obesity prevention
- sugar-sweetened beverages
- television viewing
