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SUMMARY:The MInT study: Effectively communicating about\, and intervening 
 with\, overweight in young children - Dr Deirdre Brown\, Victoria Universi
 ty of Wellington\, New Zealand
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CONTACT:Rebecca Noorderhaven
DESCRIPTION:Overweight in children is a significant health issue.  We exam
 ined the use of Motivational Interviewing to provide feedback about child 
 weight to parents following a screening health check\, and examined the im
 pact on acceptance\, understanding and retention of the health information
 . Parents of 244 overweight children (4 – 8 years old) received feedback
  about their child’s weight using either a best practice care approach (
 BPC) or motivational interviewing (MI)\, and two weeks later were intervie
 wed to assess their recall and understanding of the information from the f
 eedback session\, and their experience of the feedback.  Families were the
 n invited into a long-term intervention consisting of either a Tailored Pa
 ckage (TP) or Usual Care (UC) approach to healthy weight growth in childre
 n.  The style of feedback did not significantly alter uptake into interven
 tion\, however variations in parental experience of the feedback and the k
 inds of information they retained from the feedback session were evident. 
  Both TP and UC interventions led to improvements in child BMI two years a
 fter the initial assessment\, with greater reductions achieved by those in
  the TP condition.\n\n\nDeirdre Brown\, Anna Dawson\, Sheila Williams\, Ad
 ell Cox\, Lee Knight\, Jill Haszard\, Kimberly Meredith-Jones\, Elaine Har
 greaves\,  Jim Ross\, Barry Taylor\, Rachael Taylor\n\nThis study was fund
 ed by a three-year grant from the Health Research Council\, New Zealand (P
 I: R Taylor).\n
LOCATION:PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane)
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