CHRISTA HOY, HEATHER M. MACDONALD, HEATHER A. MCKAY. Department of Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia,. Vancouver, British Columbia ...
Abstracts / Can J Diabetes 37 (2013) S217eS289
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Assessing Determinants of Readiness to Change at Baseline in DECCO Cohort ANDREA MUCCI, L. HELDEN J. CHEN, O. SHACHAR, T MICHAEL VALLIS, KATHERINE M. MORRISON McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Building a Quantitative Evidence Base for Population Health Modelling to Address Childhood Overweight and Obesity SUZANNE ROSS, RONALD WALL, CHRISTINA BANCEJ Health Policy Strategies, Hazelton, British Columbia, Canada
Objectives: To describe self-reported child and parent Readiness to Change (RTC) scores for lifestyle change at initiation of a weight management program; and to evaluate determinants of RTC scores at baseline. Methods: Youth (n¼269) aged 8e17 years and parents completed measures of RTC at enrolment into the program. RTC now and expected RTC 6 months from now were assessed in the parent and the child independently using Likert-style questions. The relationship between parent and child RTC and between RTC and age, extent of obesity, parental education, sex and family history of diabetes and heart disease were assessed by univariate, and for related variables, by multivariate regression analysis. Results: There was moderate correlation between parent and child RTC at baseline. However, parents reported a greater RTC than children for both the acute (8.25+1.25 vs 7.53+1.98) and long-term (7.73+1.56 vs 7.51+2.22). In univariate analysis, parental RTC for both acute and long-term were directly related to maternal education (p
