Background
obesity
OBESITY
There is an urgent need for effective prevention interventions against the rising prevalence of overweight and obesity worldwide [To prevent overweight and obesity, there is evidence for effectiveness of interventions which target diet and physical activity and which start at an early age [The importance of the involvement of parents in school-based obesity prevention interventions has been emphasised, and the need for more research in non-school settings has been highlighted [The aim of this study was to describe parents’ experiences of barriers and facilitators related to participating in the Healthy School Start Plus (HSSP) intervention [This study will add further knowledge regarding how best to reach and involve parents to increase intervention effectiveness and the findings may be relevant for planning and scaling-up of similar school-based programmes in disadvantaged areas. These results will be relevant for the scaling up of the HSSP programme [