Research Summary
Communities for Healthy Living (CHL) is a five year, randomized control trial with stepped wedge design. Our work is possible by funding through NIDDK (NIH), and our study collaborates with two Head Start agencies: Action for Boston Community Development and the Community Action Agency of Somerville. CHL is a community-based participatory research intervention, with a parent health and empowerment program as our core component. We are measuring both child and parent outcomes to determine the efficacy of our program.
Publications
Are increases in parental empowerment associated with healthier weight-related parenting practices?
Acceptability and appropriateness of a novel parent-staff co-leadership model.
Summer weight gain among preschool-aged children with obesity.
The Obesity Parenting Intervention Scale: Factorial validity and invariance among Head Start parents.
CHL includes comprehensive a process evaluation.
From the pilot study in Albany, NY:
Empowering parents to play an equal role in intervention design and implementation is a promising approach to family-centered obesity prevention.
The development of childhood overweight involves a complex set of factors from multiple contexts that interact with each other to place a child at risk of overweight.
- Gago C, Jurkowski J, Beckerman-Hsu J, Aftosmes-Tobio A, Figueroa R, Oddleifson C, Mattei J, Kenney EL, Haneuse S, Davison KK. Exploring a theory of change: are increases in parental empowerment associated with healthier weight-related parenting practices? Social Science & Medicine 2022, 296. PDF
Acceptability and appropriateness of a novel parent-staff co-leadership model.
- Beckerman-Hsu J, Gago C, Aftosmes-Tobio A, Jurkowski J, Lansburg K, Leonard J, Torrico M, Haneuse S, Subramanian SV, Kenney EL, Davison KK. Acceptability and appropriateness of a novel parent-staff co-leadership model for childhood obesity prevention in Head Start: a qualitative interview study. BMC Public Health 2021, 21(1), 201. PDF
Summer weight gain among preschool-aged children with obesity.
- Beckerman-Hsu J, Aftosmes-Tobio A, Lansburg K, Leonard J, Torrico M, Kenney EL, Subramanian SV, Haneuse S, Davison KK. Summer Weight Gain Among Preschool-Aged Children with Obesity: An Observational Study in Head Start. Preventing Chronic Disease 2021, 18(E25), 844-852. PDF
The Obesity Parenting Intervention Scale: Factorial validity and invariance among Head Start parents.
- Figueroa R, Salzman JA, Aftosmes-Tobio A, Davison KK. The Obesity Parenting Intervention Scale: Factorial validity and invariance among Head Start parents. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2019, 57(6), 844-852. PDF
CHL includes comprehensive a process evaluation.
- Beckerman-Hsu J.P., Aftosmes-Tobio A., Gavarkovs A., Kitos N., Figueroa R., Kalyoncu Z.B., ...&Davison K.K. (2020). Communities for Healthy Living (CHL) A community-based intervention to prevent obesity in low-income preschool children: process evaluation protocol. Trials, 21:674. PDF
- Beckerman, J. P., Aftosmes-Tobio, A., Kitos, N., Jurkowski, J. M., Lansburg, K., Kazik, C., ... & Klabunde, R. (2019). Communities for healthy living (CHL)–A family-centered childhood obesity prevention program integrated into Head Start services: Study protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomized trial. Contemporary clinical trials, 78, 34-45. PDF
From the pilot study in Albany, NY:
Empowering parents to play an equal role in intervention design and implementation is a promising approach to family-centered obesity prevention.
- Davison, K. K., Jurkowski, J. M., Li, K., Kranz, S., & Lawson, H. A. (2013). A childhood obesity intervention developed by families for families: results from a pilot study. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 10(1), 3. PDF
The development of childhood overweight involves a complex set of factors from multiple contexts that interact with each other to place a child at risk of overweight.
- Davison, K. K., & Birch, L. L. (2001). Childhood overweight: a contextual model and recommendations for future research. Obesity reviews, 2(3), 159-171. PDF
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