Obesity Prevention for First-time Military Parents and their Children: Testing an Evidence-based Family Program
Duration: 2022 -
2027
Funding: National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Principal Investigator: Mark E. Feinberg
Partners: Uniformed Services University, Nellis Air Force Base, Elgin Air Force Base, Madigan Army Medical Center
Description
Overview
The proposed study will test the efficacy of a family-focused preventive intervention in improving healthy lifestyles among first-time parents in military families and reducing obesity risk among their infants.
Project Goals
The ultimate goals of the intervention are to reduce rapid infant weight gain, an early indicator of future obesity risk, and new mothers‚ postpartum weight retention, a contributor to intergenerational obesity transmission.
