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Table 1 Content of parents’ and children’s parallel groups for Families for Health (V2)

From: Evaluation of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Families for Health V2 for the treatment of childhood obesity: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Week

Parents’ program

Children’s program

1

Let’s get started

Let’s get started

What is health?

Why be healthy?

Balancing act 1: energy in, energy out

Balancing act 1: energy in, energy out

Let’s look after ourselves

2

Balancing acts

Balancing acts

Discipline (including setting limits and praise)

Balancing act 2: what our bodies need to eat

Balancing act 2: food our bodies need

The gift of praise

3

Inner power – our ally for health

Inner power – our health helper

Family guidelines and rewards

Our inner power

Finding our power for health (focus on physical activity)

Let’s get active

 

Introducing the pedometer

4

The question of choice

Our choices

Our eating habits

Making strong choices

Children’s choices

Let’s go shopping

5

Health is a family affair

Liking ourselves

How much we eat (portion sizes)

Glad to be me

Building self-esteem

Let’s make a rainbow (of fruit & veg)

6

Feelings – a guide to our emotional health

Getting to know our feelings

Thinking about feelings

Feeling up, feeling down

Active alternatives to staring at the screen

Screen savers: what else we can do

7

Solutions to stress

Time to chill out

Stress – and what we can do about it

What winds us up

Coming to our senses

What calms us down

Surviving at the supermarket

Activity taster

8

A world of labels

Food detectives

Food labels: what do they mean?

What’s on the label?

Labeling our children

Activity taster

9

Taking charge

Living healthily

From problem to solution

Problems, puzzles and solutions

A healthy lifestyle or a life of diets?

Activity taster

Meeting the challenge of special occasions

 

10

A healthy family future

(combined session with parents)

Scaling the ladder to health

 

We are stars!

 
 

Family party: time to celebrate

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