Behaviors to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity: Training Staff for After School Programs

Abstract

Recent national directives called for investigations to identify effective approaches to sustain and integrate childhood obesity interventions in health, education, and care systems taking into consideration measures of equity and long-term impact [13][14][15]. Findings from studies involving multi-component interventions indicate that it is possible to achieve multiple health-promoting changes in school children [16][17][18]. However, studies are limited by lack of readiness of both leaders and staff to implement these interventions; it remains unclear which component(s) has the most impact on behavior change [14].