title: Six-week Latino family prevention pilot program effectively promotes healthy behaviors and reduces obesogenic behaviors.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To test the effectiveness of a 6-week family-based healthy eating pilot program aimed to reduce obesogenic behaviors among Latino parents and children.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 6-week healthy eating pilot program focused on dietary changes within Latino families with a 6- to 13-year-old child. A 1-group, pre-posttest design with 2-month follow-up examining fruit, vegetable, and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The program was effective at increasing parent-report of child fruit consumption, (P < .001, effect size = .26), vegetable consumption, (P = .001, effect size = .20), and decreasing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption, (P = .002, effect size = .16).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This family-based prevention program was effective at improving healthy eating in Latino families, especially for children. The curriculum can be used in future prevention programs for Latino families with a 6- to 13-year-old child.
authors.affiliation: Child, Family, and Consumer Sciences, California State University, Fresno, CA.
authors.forename: Amber J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Hammons
authors.forename: Angela R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Wiley
authors.forename: Barbara H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Fiese
authors.forename: Margarita
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Teran-Garcia
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002648:Child; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control; D010865:Pilot Projects
keywords: Latino families; fruits; healthy eating program; sugar-sweetened beverages; vegetables