ArticleBMC public health2019
Proactive Assessment of Obesity Risk during Infancy (ProAsk): a qualitative study of parents' and professionals' perspectives on an mHealth intervention.
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A Feasibility Study of an Interactive, Educational Programme to Facilitate Proactive Assessment of Overweight Risk During Infancy
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Health workers' perceptions and experiences of using mHealth technologies to deliver primary healthcare services: a qualitative evidence synthesis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
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- Perceptions and Practices of Healthcare Professionals in Managing Pediatric Obesity: Insight from a Focus Group Interviews in South Korea.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Current Practices and Challenges in Pediatric Obesity Management (POM): A Nationwide Survey of Physicians in Korea.Journal of Korean medical science · 2026Article
- Support and concerns: Dutch health care professionals' views on the use of a childhood obesity prediction toolbox.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
- Consumer Health Informatics to Advance Precision Prevention.Yearbook of medical informatics · 2024Review
- Evidence-Based Implementation of the Family-Centered Model and the Use of Tele-Intervention in Early Childhood Services: A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Mixed methods feasibility and usability testing of a childhood obesity risk estimation tool.BMC public health · 2023Article
- School-Based Physical Activity Intervention: A Qualitative Process Evaluation of a Feasibility Trial in Yangzhou, China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- A prediction model for childhood obesity in New Zealand.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- "They Just Need to Come Down a Little Bit to your Level": A Qualitative Study of Parents' Views and Experiences of Early Life Interventions to Promote Healthy Growth and Associated Behaviours.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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backgroundPrevention of childhood obesity is a public health priority. Interventions that establish healthy growth trajectories early in life promise lifelong benefits to health and wellbeing. Proactive Assessment of Obesity Risk during Infancy (ProAsk) is a novel mHealth intervention designed to enable health professionals to assess an infant's risk of future overweight and motivate parental behaviour change to prevent childhood overweight and obesity. The aim of this study was to explore parents' and health professionals' experiences of the overweight risk communication and behaviour change aspects of this mHealth intervention.
methodsThe study was conducted in four economically deprived localities in the UK. Parents (N = 66) were recruited to the ProAsk feasibility study when their infant was 6-8 weeks old. Twenty two health visitors (HVs) used a hand-held tablet device to deliver ProAsk to parents when their infants were 3 months old. Parents (N = 12) and HVs (N = 15) were interviewed when infants in the study were 6 months old. Interview data were transcribed and analysed thematically using an inductive, interpretative approach.
resultsFour key themes were identified across both parent and health visitor data: Engaging and empowering with digital technology; Unfamiliar technology presents challenges and opportunity; Trust in the risk score; Resistance to targeting. Most participants found the interactivity and visual presentation of information on ProAsk engaging. Health visitors who were unfamiliar with mobile technology drew support from parents who were more confident using tablet devices. There was evidence of resistance to targeting infants at greatest risk of future overweight and obesity, and both parents and health visitors drew on a number of reasons why a higher than average overweight risk score might not apply to a particular infant.
conclusionsAn mHealth intervention actively engaged parents, enabling them to take ownership of the process of seeking strategies to reduce infant risk of overweight. However, cognitive and motivational biases that prevent effective overweight risk communication are barriers to targeting an intervention at those infants most at risk.
trial registrationNCT02314494 . Date registered 11th December 2014.
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