Walking the talk: Fit WIC wellness programs improve self-efficacy in pediatric obesity prevention counseling.
Six sites of the California Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) participated in a staff wellness pilot intervention designed to improve staff self-efficacy in counseling WIC clients about childhood overweight. A pre-post test design with intervention and control groups was used; outcome measures included staff perceptions of the intervention's effects on the workplace environment, their personal habits and health beliefs, and their counseling self-efficacy. Intervention site staff were more likely to report that the workplace environment supported their efforts to make healthy food choices (P <.001), be physically active (P <.01), make positive changes in counseling parents about their children's weight (P <.01), and feel more comfortable in encouraging WIC clients to do physical activities with their children (P <.05).
Crawford
Patricia B
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Center for Weight and Health, College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley 94720-3104, USA. crawford@socrates.berkeley.edu
Gosliner
Wendi
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Strode
Poppy
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Samuels
Sarah E
SE
Burnett
Claudia
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Craypo
Lisa
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Yancey
Antronette K
AK
D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002140:California; D002648:Child; D053198:Child Nutrition Sciences / Q000193:education; D003376:Counseling / Q000592:standards*; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006266:Health Education / Q000592:standards; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008427:Maternal Health Services / Q000592:standards; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D015995:Prevalence; D012648:Self Care; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012931:Social Environment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017132:Workplace