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Acceptability and appropriateness of a novel parent-staff co-leadership model for childhood obesity prevention in Head Start: a qualitative interview study

BACKGROUND: Peer leadership can be an effective strategy for implementing health programs, benefiting both program participants and peer leaders. To realize such benefits, the peer leader role must be appropriate for the community context. Also, peer leaders must find their role acceptable (i.e., sa...

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Autores principales: Beckerman-Hsu, Jacob P., Gago, Cristina, Aftosmes-Tobio, Alyssa, Jurkowski, Janine M., Lansburg, Kindra, Leonard, Jessie, Torrico, Merieka, Haneuse, Sebastien, Subramanian, S. V., Kenney, Erica L., Davison, Kirsten K.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7825243/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33482774
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10159-3
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author Beckerman-Hsu, Jacob P.
Gago, Cristina
Aftosmes-Tobio, Alyssa
Jurkowski, Janine M.
Lansburg, Kindra
Leonard, Jessie
Torrico, Merieka
Haneuse, Sebastien
Subramanian, S. V.
Kenney, Erica L.
Davison, Kirsten K.
author_facet Beckerman-Hsu, Jacob P.
Gago, Cristina
Aftosmes-Tobio, Alyssa
Jurkowski, Janine M.
Lansburg, Kindra
Leonard, Jessie
Torrico, Merieka
Haneuse, Sebastien
Subramanian, S. V.
Kenney, Erica L.
Davison, Kirsten K.
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description BACKGROUND: Peer leadership can be an effective strategy for implementing health programs, benefiting both program participants and peer leaders. To realize such benefits, the peer leader role must be appropriate for the community context. Also, peer leaders must find their role acceptable (i.e., satisfactory) to ensure their successful recruitment and retention. To date, parent peer leaders have seldom been part of early childhood obesity prevention efforts. Moreover, parents at Head Start preschools have rarely been engaged as peer leaders. The aim of this study is to evaluate the appropriateness and acceptability of an innovative model for engaging parents as peer leaders for this novel content area (early childhood obesity prevention) and setting (Head Start). METHODS: Parents Connect for Healthy Living (PConnect) is a 10-session parent program being implemented in Head Start preschools as part of the Communities for Healthy Living early childhood obesity prevention trial. PConnect is co-led by a parent peer facilitator who is paired with a Head Start staff facilitator. In the spring of 2019, 10 PConnect facilitators participated in a semi-structured interview about their experience. Interview transcripts were analyzed by two coders using an inductive-deductive hybrid analysis. Themes were identified and member-checked with two interviewees. RESULTS: Themes identified applied equally to parent and staff facilitators. Acceptability was high because PConnect facilitators were able to learn and teach, establish meaningful relationships, and positively impact the parents participating in their groups, although facilitators did express frustration when low attendance limited their reach. Appropriateness was also high, as PConnect provided adequate structure and support without being overly rigid, and facilitators were able to overcome most challenges they encountered. CONCLUSIONS: The PConnect co-facilitation model was highly acceptable and appropriate for both the parent facilitators (peer leaders) and the staff facilitators. Including parents as peer leaders aligns to Head Start’s emphasis on parent engagement, making it a strong candidate for sustained implementation in Head Start. The insights gained about the drivers of peer leadership appropriateness and acceptability in this particular context may be used to inform the design and implementation of peer-led health programs elsewhere. TRIAL REGISTRATION: clinicaltrials.gov, NCT03334669 (7–11-17). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-021-10159-3.
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spelling pubmed-78252432021-01-25 Acceptability and appropriateness of a novel parent-staff co-leadership model for childhood obesity prevention in Head Start: a qualitative interview study Beckerman-Hsu, Jacob P. Gago, Cristina Aftosmes-Tobio, Alyssa Jurkowski, Janine M. Lansburg, Kindra Leonard, Jessie Torrico, Merieka Haneuse, Sebastien Subramanian, S. V. Kenney, Erica L. Davison, Kirsten K. BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Peer leadership can be an effective strategy for implementing health programs, benefiting both program participants and peer leaders. To realize such benefits, the peer leader role must be appropriate for the community context. Also, peer leaders must find their role acceptable (i.e., satisfactory) to ensure their successful recruitment and retention. To date, parent peer leaders have seldom been part of early childhood obesity prevention efforts. Moreover, parents at Head Start preschools have rarely been engaged as peer leaders. The aim of this study is to evaluate the appropriateness and acceptability of an innovative model for engaging parents as peer leaders for this novel content area (early childhood obesity prevention) and setting (Head Start). METHODS: Parents Connect for Healthy Living (PConnect) is a 10-session parent program being implemented in Head Start preschools as part of the Communities for Healthy Living early childhood obesity prevention trial. PConnect is co-led by a parent peer facilitator who is paired with a Head Start staff facilitator. In the spring of 2019, 10 PConnect facilitators participated in a semi-structured interview about their experience. Interview transcripts were analyzed by two coders using an inductive-deductive hybrid analysis. Themes were identified and member-checked with two interviewees. RESULTS: Themes identified applied equally to parent and staff facilitators. Acceptability was high because PConnect facilitators were able to learn and teach, establish meaningful relationships, and positively impact the parents participating in their groups, although facilitators did express frustration when low attendance limited their reach. Appropriateness was also high, as PConnect provided adequate structure and support without being overly rigid, and facilitators were able to overcome most challenges they encountered. CONCLUSIONS: The PConnect co-facilitation model was highly acceptable and appropriate for both the parent facilitators (peer leaders) and the staff facilitators. Including parents as peer leaders aligns to Head Start’s emphasis on parent engagement, making it a strong candidate for sustained implementation in Head Start. The insights gained about the drivers of peer leadership appropriateness and acceptability in this particular context may be used to inform the design and implementation of peer-led health programs elsewhere. TRIAL REGISTRATION: clinicaltrials.gov, NCT03334669 (7–11-17). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-021-10159-3. BioMed Central 2021-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7825243/ /pubmed/33482774 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10159-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Beckerman-Hsu, Jacob P.
Gago, Cristina
Aftosmes-Tobio, Alyssa
Jurkowski, Janine M.
Lansburg, Kindra
Leonard, Jessie
Torrico, Merieka
Haneuse, Sebastien
Subramanian, S. V.
Kenney, Erica L.
Davison, Kirsten K.
Acceptability and appropriateness of a novel parent-staff co-leadership model for childhood obesity prevention in Head Start: a qualitative interview study
title Acceptability and appropriateness of a novel parent-staff co-leadership model for childhood obesity prevention in Head Start: a qualitative interview study
title_full Acceptability and appropriateness of a novel parent-staff co-leadership model for childhood obesity prevention in Head Start: a qualitative interview study
title_fullStr Acceptability and appropriateness of a novel parent-staff co-leadership model for childhood obesity prevention in Head Start: a qualitative interview study
title_full_unstemmed Acceptability and appropriateness of a novel parent-staff co-leadership model for childhood obesity prevention in Head Start: a qualitative interview study
title_short Acceptability and appropriateness of a novel parent-staff co-leadership model for childhood obesity prevention in Head Start: a qualitative interview study
title_sort acceptability and appropriateness of a novel parent-staff co-leadership model for childhood obesity prevention in head start: a qualitative interview study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7825243/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33482774
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10159-3
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