Background Process evaluation can illuminate barriers and facilitators to intervention
implementation as well as the drivers of intervention outcomes. However, few obesity …

Background Childhood obesity is highly prevalent and carries substantial health
consequences. Childhood obesity interventions have had mixed results, which may be …

Sustaining community-based obesity interventions for families represents an ongoing
challenge. Many initially grant-funded initiatives lack a sustainable model to continue. After …

Background: Childhood obesity prevention interventions have engaged coalitions in study
design, implementation, and/or evaluation to improve research outcomes; yet, no systematic …

Although reliable strategies exist to promote healthy habits that reduce childhood obesity,
the sustainability of these strategies remains an ongoing public health challenge. This study …

Background: There is need for the childhood obesity treatment literature to identify effective
recruitment and engagement strategies for rural communities that are more likely to lack …

Background Childhood obesity remains a serious public health concern. Community-based
childhood obesity treatment interventions have the potential to improve health behaviors …

Childhood obesity rates are steadily rising. Sustainable Childhood Obesity Prevention
Through Community Engagement (SCOPE) is a community-based participatory action …

Abstract The Healthy Weight Collaborative (HWC) represents a national quality
improvement effort to increase uptake of evidence-based community-based interventions to …

Background One third of US children and two thirds of adults are overweight or obese.
Interventions to prevent obesity and thus avert threats to public health are needed. This …