School Children
Essays

¶ … Focus Group Results to Inform Preschool Childhood Obesity Prevention Programming and Developing a Coordinated School Health Approach to Child Obesity Prevention in Rural Appalachia: Results of Focus Groups with…

¶ … quasi-experimental quantitative study on the topic of childhood obesity. The topic of the research was a comprehensive approach to nutritional improvement in a pilot study involving four schools in which…

¶ … focus-group surveys of teachers, parents, and students on issues related to their perceptions and school policy on the healthcare topics of nutrition, physical activity, and obesity prevention.

Since the early 1980s childhood obesity has increased three-fold and during the 2005-2006 school year an estimated 16% of American children were obese (reviewed by Gleason and Dodd, 2009).

Lifting Up Our Children Through Public Schools