5. Conclusions
obesity
OBESITY
In this more well-educated but lower-income sample of NH B/AA children and parents, a RCT testing a culturally adapted internet intervention with innovative behavior change procedures did not have the desired or expected effects on children’s dietary intake overall, although differences were observed among those with certain characteristics, such as children receiving free/reduced-price lunch at school and screen media use. Future research is needed to further investigate these relationships. The reasons for the lack of overall effectiveness are not clear. Future efforts to promote dietary intake change among NH B/AA children should explore other behavior change procedures and employ less error-prone dietary intake assessment methods. Poor dietary intake and obesity remain frequently addressed, but unresolved, public health problems in need of intense solution-focused research efforts.