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Healthy Families Project
- 4 community practices in rural New Hampshire with Pediatric and Family Medicine health providers (population 2,000 to 15,000)
- 1585 parents at well visits of their children ages 4 to 10 years have completed pre-visit screening utilizing a hand held computer (PDA)
- Clinicians training to use brief motivational interviewing techniques and provided via the PDA:
- 1) child's BMI and BMI Percentile
- 2) obesity related health risks,
- 3) each parent's motivation to change for nutrition and activity,
- 4) counseling prompts for motivational interviewing
- Enrollment of parents of children with obesity risks and BMI >85% is completed and now collecting follow up data on the cohort at 6 months after enrollment
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