title: 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.
abstract: 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.
authors: Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. frenc001@umn.edu.
authors: S A
authors: SA
authors: French
authors: HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
authors: N E
authors: NE
authors: Sherwood
authors: Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
authors: M M
authors: MM
authors: JaKa
authors: Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
authors: J L
authors: JL
authors: Haapala
authors: New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors: C B
authors: CB
authors: Ebbeling
authors: New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors: D S
authors: DS
authors: Ludwig
mesh_terms: D001628:Beverages / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002149:Energy Intake; D004777:Environment; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D050177:Overweight / Q000628:therapy*; D063766:Pediatric Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011998:Recreation; D013549:Sweetening Agents / Q000009:adverse effects; D013690:Television / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
chemical_list: D013549:Sweetening Agents
keywords: Pediatric obesity prevention; sugar-sweetened beverages; television viewing