Parental Support to Promote Children's Dietary and Physical Activity Behaviours in Disadvantaged Settings
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Background: A clear socioeconomic gradient in prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity exists in Sweden whereby children with low socioeconomic status (SES) have higher rates. Parents are an important target group for interventions to promote healthy behaviours and prevent unhealthy weight development in children. Aims: The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate the effects and implementation of the Healthy School Start (HSS) parental support intervention to promote healthy child dietary and physical activity (PA) behaviours and prevent unhealthy weight development in disadvantaged settings in Sweden. Study I: To evaluate the effectiveness of the six-month HSS parental support programme targeting dietary habits, PA and body weight of six-year-old children in families with low SES in the school context Study II: To explore the variation of how mothers and fathers with low SES influence their children’s dietary behaviours as explored during a real-life session of Motivational
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