A total of 148 health and social care practitioners were trained in skills to support behaviour
change: creating opportunities to discuss health behaviours, using open discovery questions…

The Southampton Initiative for Health is a training intervention with Sure Start Children’s
Centre staff designed to improve the diets and physical activity levels of women of childbearing …

Objective(i) To assess change in confidence in having conversations that support parents
with healthy eating and physical activity post-training. (ii) To assess change in staff …

Few studies have explored pre-pregnancy diet and its relationship with pregnancy outcomes.
The objectives of this study were to: (1) derive pre-pregnancy dietary patterns for women …

The practices mothers adopt in relation to feeding their children have been identified as
important predictors of children's quality of diet. However, most studies of the impact of these …

Background: Gestational weight gain in excess of or below Health Canada's guidelines is
known to increase the risk of adverse outcomes for both the woman and her baby. This study …

This study addresses a gap in the food environment literature by investigating spatial
differences in the inter relationship of price, variety and quality of food in southern England. We …

Objectives The UK government's response to the obesity epidemic calls for action in communities
to improve people's health behaviour. This study evaluated the effects of a community …

Objective:Little is known about the diet quality of preschool children in Canada. We adapted
an established diet quality index for European preschool children to align with the Canadian …

Background: Women of lower educational attainment tend to have poorer quality diets and
lower food involvement (an indicator of the priority given to food) than women of higher …