ArticlePilot and feasibility studies2018
Cluster randomised controlled feasibility study of HENRY: a community-based intervention aimed at reducing obesity rates in preschool children.
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Cluster Randomised Controlled Feasibility Study of HENRY; a Community Based Intervention Aimed at Reducing School Entry Obesity Rates
Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- Behavioural components and delivery features of early childhood obesity prevention interventions: intervention coding of studies in the TOPCHILD Collaboration systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review of economic evidence for community-based obesity prevention interventions in children.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2023Pooled it
- A collaborative approach to develop an intervention to strengthen health visitors' role in prevention of excess weight gain in children.BMC public health · 2022Pooled it
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- Contamination within trials of community-based public health interventions: lessons from the HENRY feasibility study.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2021Article
- Cluster randomised controlled feasibility study of HENRY: a community-based intervention aimed at reducing obesity rates in preschool children.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2021Article
- Measuring commissioners' willingness-to-pay for community based childhood obesity prevention programmes using a discrete choice experiment.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Participant engagement with a UK community-based preschool childhood obesity prevention programme: a focused ethnography study.BMC public health · 2019Article
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8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundIn the UK and beyond, public funding is used to commission interventions delivered in public health early years settings aimed at improving health and well-being and reducing inequalities in order to promote school readiness. This is a key setting for obesity prevention programmes, which are often commissioned despite the limited evidence base. The HENRY (Health, Exercise, Nutrition for the Really Young) programme is an 8-week programme delivered to parents of preschool children, designed to support families to optimise healthy weight behaviours. Early evidence suggests that it may be effective, but a robust evaluation using a randomised controlled design has not been conducted. This study begins this process by evaluating the feasibility of conducting a multi-centre definitive trial to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of HENRY to prevent obesity in the early years.
methodsThis is a multi-centre, open labelled, two group, prospective, cluster randomised, controlled, feasibility study aiming to recruit 120 parents from 12 children's centres, based in two local authority areas. Within each of the two local authorities, three centres will be randomised to HENRY and three will be randomised to a control arm of standard care (usual provision of services within children's centres). We will explore HENRY commissioning, provision and delivery and assess the feasibility of local authority, centre and parent recruitment, the processes and time required to train and certify staff to deliver the intervention, the potential sources (and associated risk) of contamination and the feasibility of the trial procedures. Research includes a process evaluation, feasibility of cost-effectiveness evaluation, with progression to the definitive trial judged against pre-defined criteria. DISCUSSION: This feasibility study will support the decision to proceed to, and the design of, a future definitive trial, providing an evidence base of an approach to prevent childhood obesity, which has been deemed attractive to all stakeholders, including parents. Given the widespread adoption of the intervention, this has the potential to impact on public health in the UK and beyond.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov Identifier NCT03333733 registered 6th November 2017Protocol date: 25th October 2017Protocol version: 4.0.
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