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Parents Working Together: development and feasibility trial of a workplace-based program for parents that incorporates general parenting and health behaviour messages

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Title
Parents Working Together: development and feasibility trial of a workplace-based program for parents that incorporates general parenting and health behaviour messages
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BMC Public Health, November 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12889-016-3817-z
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L. Wilson, Donna Lero, Allan Smofsky, Deborah Gross, Jess Haines

Abstract

Parenting programs integrating general parenting and health behaviour messaging may be an effective childhood obesity prevention strategy. The current study explored workplaces as an alternate setting to deliver parenting programs. This study involved two phases. The objective of the first phase was to explore interest in and preferred delivery mode of a workplace program that addresses general parenting and health behaviours. The objective of the second phase was to adapt and test the feasibility and acceptability of a pre-existing program that has been successfully run in community settings for parents in their workplace. To achieve the first objective, we conducted 9 individual or small group qualitative interviews with 11 workplace representatives involved in employee wellness/wellness programming from 8 different organizations across Southwestern Ontario. To achieve the second objective, we adapted a pre-existing program incorporating workplace representatives' suggestions to create Parents Working Together (PWT). We then tested the program using a pre/post uncontrolled feasibility trial with 9 employees of a large manufacturing company located in Guelph, Ontario. Results from the qualitative phase showed that a workplace parenting program that addresses general parenting and health behaviour messages is of interest to workplaces. Results from the feasibility trial suggest that PWT is feasible and well received by participants; attendance rates were high with 89 % of the participants attending 5 or more sessions and 44 % attending all 7 sessions offered. All participants stated they would recommend the program to co-workers. Just over half of our parent participants were male (55.6 %), which is a unique finding as the majority of existing parenting programs engage primarily mothers. Impact evaluation results suggest that changes in children's and parents' weight-related behaviours, as well as parents' reports of family interfering with work were in the desired direction post-intervention; however, confidence intervals substantially overlapped zero. Contrary to expectations, parents also reported an increase in restrictive feeding practices. Our results indicate that a workplace-based program that addresses general parenting skills and weight-related behaviours may be a feasible way to engage and educate parents, including fathers. A full-scale trial is needed to examine the effectiveness of this approach.

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Unknown 106 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 20 19%
Student > Bachelor 13 12%
Researcher 10 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 6%
Other 12 11%
Unknown 37 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 23 22%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 10%
Psychology 10 9%
Social Sciences 8 8%
Sports and Recreations 4 4%
Other 10 9%
Unknown 40 38%
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