Preparation phase: conceptual framework and development of the intervention components
obesity
OBESITY
The Healthy Bodies Project was designed as a multicomponent, childcare-, and family-based preventive intervention with the overarching goal of reducing preschool children’s obesity risk by improving their healthy eating knowledge, physical activity patterns, and behavioral self-regulation skills. The first goal of the preparation phase was to use evidence from the literature to inform the conceptual model and select candidate intervention components. The second goal was to pilot test the feasibility of the components and the study design. Development of the study was guided by social cognitive theory.The conceptual framework appears in The Healthy Bodies Project conceptual model.