Strengthening and Supporting the Early Prevention and Healthy Lifestyle Promotion Efforts of Pediatric Primary Healthcare Providers: A Strong4Life Program Pilot Study

Abstract

Background: Increasingly, efforts to address the high prevalence of obesity and chronic disease have begun to focus on early prevention, specifically improving parents' feeding practices, child nutrition, and related lifestyle patterns in infancy and early childhood. As pediatric primary healthcare providers are parents' leading source of early prevention information, efforts to ensure that the educational messages that they convey are evidence-based, well-received by parents, and easily integrated into routine clinic practice are critically needed. The purpose of this pilot project was to assess the feasibility and acceptability to parents …