title: Training program for overweight prevention in the child's first year: compilation and results.
abstract: The current local overweight-prevention protocols are not applied as intended by Dutch child healthcare physicians and nurses. The development of a training program for these practitioners, based on the Intervention Mapping framework, with the aim of improving overweight-prevention in a child's first year, is described in this study. The needs assessment showed three program objectives to be relevant, namely improving: (i) awareness of the importance of early overweight-prevention; (ii) the competence to discuss (the risk of) overweight with parents; and (iii) working systematically according to the overweight-prevention protocol. A matrix was then created specifying the program objectives in terms of personal learning objectives and environmental change objectives, and appropriate strategies were identified. The results suggested that a more active tailored and structured change strategy improves knowledge and skills, in particular, which results in a better overall implementation of the overweight-prevention protocol. This training program should help providers understand how the implementation of a protocol, such as the overweight-prevention protocol, can be improved. Using the Intervention Mapping framework for systematic protocol implementation seems a valuable option.
authors: Department of Social Medicine, Medicine and Life Sciences/School for Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht, the Netherlands; The Academic Collaborative Centre for Public Health Limburg, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
authors: Eveliene
authors: E
authors: Dera-de Bie
authors: Willem Jan
authors: WJ
authors: Gerver
authors: Maria
authors: M
authors: Jansen
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009426:Netherlands; D050177:Overweight / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education; D063766:Pediatric Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D018570:Risk Assessment
keywords: child healthcare practitioner; overweight-prevention; the Netherlands; training program