Additional Resources
With childhood obesity now threatening one in four children with long-term health problems, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center developed the video Beyond Nutrition Counseling: Reframing the Battle Against Obesity through a research collaboration between Cincinnati Children's and the Kentucky WIC Program.
The following list of publications were written by members of the video project team on the topic of childhood obesity:
- Altering the Perceptions of WIC Health Professionals about Childhood Obesity: Use of Video with Facilitated Group Discussion. It provides further details on the methodology and findings from the KY WIC evaluation. J Am Diet Assoc. 2004 Mar; 104 (3) 379-386.
You may download a copy of the Altering the Perceptions of WIC Health Professionals about Childhood Obesity article (96kb) in portable document format (.pdf), with permission granted from American Medical Association. You must have Adobe Acrobat" Reader installed on your computer to read this file.
- Baughcum AE, Burklow KA, Deeks CM, Powers SW, Whitaker RC: Maternal Feeding Practices And Childhood Obesity: A Focus Group Study Of Low-Income Mothers. Arch. Pediatr. Adolesc. Med., 152:1010-1014, 1998.
You may download a copy of the Maternal Feeding Practices article (136kb) in portable document format (.pdf), with permission granted from American Medical Association. You must have Adobe Acrobat" Reader installed on your computer to read this file.
- Baughcum AE, Chamberlin LA, Deeks CM, Powers SW, Whitaker RC: Maternal Perceptions Of Overweight Preschool Children. Pediatrics 106:1380-1386, 2000.
You may download a copy of the Maternal Perceptions article (151kb) in portable document format (.pdf), with permission granted from Pediatrics. You must have Adobe Acrobat" Reader installed on your computer to read this file.
- Baughcum AE, Powers SW, Johnson SB, Chamberlin LA, Deeks CM, Jain A, Whitaker RC: Maternal Feeding Practices And Beliefs And Their Relationships To Overweight In Early Childhood. J. Dev. Behav. Pediatr. 22:391–408, 2001.
- Jain A, Sherman SN, Chamberlin LA, Carter Y, Powers SW, Whitaker RC: Why Don't Low-Income Mothers Worry About Their Preschoolers Being Overweight? Pediatrics 107:1138-1146, 2001.
You may download a copy of the Why Don't Low-Income Mothers Worry article (163kb) in portable document format (.pdf), with permission granted from Pediatrics. You must have Adobe Acrobat" Reader installed on your computer to read this file.
- Chamberlin LA, Sherman SN, Jain A, Powers SW, Whitaker RC: The Challenge of Preventing and Treating Obesity in Low-Income, Preschool Children: Perceptions of WIC Health Care Professionals. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 156:662-668, 2002.
You may download a copy of the Challenge of Preventing and Treating Obesity article (107kb) in portable document format (.pdf), with permission granted from American Medical Association. You must have Adobe Acrobat" Reader installed on your computer to read this file.
For More Information
For more information about childhood obesity, you may download any of the following documents in portable document format (.pdf):
You can download the clinical tools below in portable document format (.pdf):
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