Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ

Healthy Families Project

• 4 community practices in rural New Hampshire with Pediatric and Family Medicine health providers (population 2,000 to 15,000)
• 1585 parents at well visits of their children ages 4 to 10 years have completed pre-visit screening utilizing a hand held computer (PDA)
• Clinicians training to use brief motivational interviewing techniques and provided via the PDA:
  • 1) child's BMI and BMI Percentile
  • 2) obesity related health risks,
  • 3) each parent's motivation to change for nutrition and activity,
  • 4) counseling prompts for motivational interviewing
• Enrollment of parents of children with obesity risks and BMI >85% is completed and now collecting follow up data on the cohort at 6 months after enrollment