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Development and implementation of a school-based obesity prevention intervention: lessons learned from
Kimberly Uyeda1, Laura M Bogart, Jennifer Hawes-Dawson
1Los Angeles Unified School District, USA.
Background:
National, state, and local policies aim to change school environments to prevent child obesity. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) can be effective in translating public health policy into practice.
Objectives:
We describe lessons learned from developing and pilot testing a middle school-based obesity prevention intervention using CBPR in Los Angeles, California.
Methods:
We formed a community-academic partnership between the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and the UCLA/RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion to identify community needs and priorities for addressing adolescent obesity and to develop and pilot test a school-based intervention.
Lessons Learned:
Academic partners need to be well-versed in organizational structures and policies. Partnerships should be built on relationships of trust, shared vision, and mutual capacity building, with genuine community engagement at multiple levels.
Conclusion:
These lessons are critical, not only for partnering with schools on obesity prevention, but also for working in other community settings and on other health issues.
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