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Families with an overweight child aged 6-11 years invited to participate in family based intervention

Childhood obesity is a concern with a quarter of school-aged children in the UK having excess weight which may be detrimental to their health. Warwick Medical School, in conjunction with NHS Coventry, NHS Warwickshire and NHS Wolverhampton City PCT are testing a new family-based intervention called ‘Families for Health’ (FFH), designed to support families with children who are overweight or obese.

All families that participate will receive support and will be randomly allocated to either FFH or ‘usual care’. FFH is a 10 week group-based programme which aims to support families in adopting healthy lifestyle behaviours in a friendly, fun and supportive community environment. Usual care varies by location, but may include one-to-one support or other group-based programmes.

“We thoroughly enjoyed the Families for Health programme, it was a lot of fun and we found we radically changed our portion sizes as a result” (Mrs B, Coventry).

For further information or to refer a family please contact the Families for Health team on FFH@warwick.ac.uk or telephone 02476 151 864

This project is funded by the NIHR HTA programme