Childhood Obesity Video Overview
Childhood obesity now threatens one in four children with long-term health problems, and the crisis is growing.
Using sensitively filmed day-in-the-life segments with three low-income mothers who are clients of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program, Beyond Nutrition Counseling: Reframing the Battle Against Obesity poignantly highlights the struggles parents face rearing young children.
The video addresses both the prevention and management of childhood obesity. It is intended to encourage discussion among health care professionals and policy makers about the fact that parents may be unable to implement nutritional advice without improved child-rearing skills.
Through a research collaboration between Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the Kentucky WIC Program, this Telly award-winning video was developed by Robert C. Whitaker, MD, MPH, formerly of the Division of General and Community Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's, along with Leigh Ann Chamberlin, RD, MEd, and Scott W. Powers, PhD, Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology at Cincinnati Children's, and consultant Susan Sherman, DPA, of SNS Research.
Funding was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service, as part of the Fit WIC Project.
Why the childhood obesity video was developed?
Despite the best efforts of WIC health professionals in their counseling sessions with clients, the vast majority of mothers with overweight preschool children enrolled in WIC do not identify their children as being even "a little overweight" (Baughcum 2000).
Therefore, Beyond Nutrition Counseling: Reframing the Battle against Obesity was developed to help close the gap that now exists between how mothers and health professionals perceive childhood obesity.
National Conferences
The childhood obesity video has been presented and discussed at the following national conferences:
- Obesity in Preschoolers: Perceptions and Barriers in WIC 18th Annual Conference of the National Association of WIC Directors, Myrtle Beach, SC, May 7, 2001
- From Focus Groups to Intervention: Development of Ethnic Specific Programs to Prevent Early Child Obesity. American Dietetic Association Food and Nutrition Conference and Exhibition, St Louis, MO, October 23, 2001
- Obesity among low-income families enrolled in the WIC Program: a video documentary of parent and provider perceptions. North American Association for the Study of Obesity Annual Meeting, Quebec City, Canada, October 6, 2001
- Cross-cultural Perspectives on Obesity Prevention in Low Income Children," American Public Health Association 129th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, October 23, 2001
You may either download an order form (15kb) in portable document format (.pdf) and mail it or write to us for a copy of the video. If you choose to download a form, you must have Adobe Acrobat" Reader installed on your computer to read this file.
You may also order a video by sending an email to Leigh Ann Chamberlin at Cincinnati Children's (leighann.chamberlin@cchmc.org).
You can download Adobe Acrobat" Reader at Adobe's Web site by selecting the version appropriate for your type of computer.
Mailing Address
Fit WIC Project
c/o Leigh Ann Chamberlin, RD, MEd
Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Sabin Center, 4th Floor, ML 3015
3333 Burnet Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45229-3039
Email: leighann.chamberlin@cchmc.org
For any other questions, please contact Leigh Ann Chamberlin, RD, MEd (fitwic@cchmc.org).
