title: Family-based hip-hop to health: outcome results.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This pilot study tested the feasibility of Family-Based Hip-Hop to Health, a school-based obesity prevention intervention for 3-5-year-old Latino children and their parents, and estimated its effectiveness in producing smaller average changes in BMI at 1-year follow-up.
  
  
  METHODS
  Four Head Start preschools administered through the Chicago Public Schools were randomly assigned to receive a Family-Based Intervention (FBI) or a General Health Intervention (GHI).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Parents signed consent forms for 147 of the 157 children enrolled. Both the school-based and family-based components of the intervention were feasible, but attendance for the parent intervention sessions was low. Contrary to expectations, a downtrend in BMI Z-score was observed in both the intervention and control groups.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  While the data reflect a downward trend in obesity among these young Hispanic children, obesity rates remained higher at 1-year follow-up (15%) than those reported by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2009-2010) for 2-5-year-old children (12.1%). Developing evidence-based strategies for obesity prevention among Hispanic families remains a challenge.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. mlf@uic.edu
authors.forename: Marian L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Fitzgibbon
authors.forename: Melinda R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Stolley
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Schiffer
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kong
authors.forename: Carol L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Braunschweig
authors.forename: Sandra L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Gomez-Perez
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Odoms-Young
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Van Horn
authors.forename: Katherine Kaufer
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Christoffel
authors.forename: Alan R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Dyer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002641:Chicago; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004032:Diet; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009043:Motor Activity; D009749:Nutrition Surveys; D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012574:Schools; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013690:Television