Physical changes in the home environment to reduce television viewing and sugar‐sweetened beverage consumption among 5‐ to 12‐year‐old children: a randomized pilot study. Issue 5 (28th August 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: French, S. A.; Sherwood, N. E.; JaKa, M. M.; Haapala, J. L.; Ebbeling, C. B.; Ludwig, D. S.
• Is Part Of: Pediatric obesity. Volume 11:Issue 5(2016:Oct.)
• Page Start: e12
• Page End: e15
• Publication Date: 2015-08-28
• Subjects: Pediatric obesity prevention -- sugar‐sweetened beverages -- television viewing; Obesity in children -- Periodicals; Obesity in adolescence -- Periodicals; Obesity -- Periodicals; Overweight children -- Periodicals; 618.92398
• DOI: 10.1111/ijpo.12067
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1747-7174

Abstract

Summary: This study evaluated the feasibility of a home‐based intervention to reduce sugar‐sweetened beverage intake and television viewing among children. Lower income parents of overweight children aged 5–12 years ( n = 40) were randomized to a home environment intervention to reduce television viewing with locking devices and displace availability of sugar‐sweetened beverages with home delivery of non‐caloric beverages ( n = 25), or to a no‐intervention control group ( n = 15) for 6 months. Data were collected at baseline and 6 months. After 6 months, television viewing hours per day was significantly lower in the intervention group compared with the control group (1.7 [SE = .02] vs. 2.6 [SE = .25] hours/day, respectively, P < .01). Sugar‐sweetened beverage intake was marginally significantly lower among intervention group compared to control group children (0.21 [SE = .09] vs. 0.45 [SE = .10], respectively, P < .09). Body mass index (BMI) z‐score was not significantly lower among intervention compared to control children. Among a lower income sample of children, a home‐based intervention reduced television viewing, but not sugar‐sweetened beverage intake or BMI z‐score.