Moreover, narrative-based health communication interventions can be effective with populations that have strong storytelling traditions such as Latino and African American communities, especially when cultural elements are incorporated. Visual narratives such as comics may engage today’s youth population around health topics and promote positive psychosocial and behavioral outcomes. Įffective yet innovative interventions are needed to capture the attention of children living in a multimedia environment. This epidemic has profound short- and long-term consequences as it not only leads to negative health outcomes such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease and can compromise a child’s quality of life but also increases the risk of adult morbidity and mortality. Latino and black/African American children have the highest rates at 21.9% and 19.5%, respectively. Although the US childhood obesity rate has leveled off in recent years, the challenge remains pronounced among certain populations, particularly in low-income, minority groups. Over the last three decades, the rate of childhood obesity has tripled, with 17.0% of children aged 2 to 19 years now considered obese. Secondary measures comprise dietary knowledge, preferences, and intake and anthropometric measures (for child) and feeding practices and home food environment (for parent).Ĭhildhood obesity continues to be a serious clinical and public health issue in the United States. Primary measures comprise usage, usability, and feasibility of the Web-based tool. Data were collected at 4 time points: baseline (T1), intervention midpoint (T2), intervention endpoint (T3), and 3 months postintervention (T4). Child-parent dyads were randomized to either the experimental or comparison group and assigned to a targeted behavior (increase fruit/vegetable or water intake) based on initial screening questions.
The tool was evaluated using a pilot, single-blind, 2-group randomized controlled study design. The parental component consists of 6 Web-based newsletters, access to the child comic, and weekly text/email messages and reminders. The child component consists of a 6-chapter interactive nutrition comic optimized for use on tablet devices, a goal-setting and self-assessment feature, and weekly text/email messages and reminders. Intervention INC is underpinned by the narrative transportation theory, social cognitive theory, and health belief model, and it was co-developed by children and parents from the intended population.
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