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Abstract
Five African American grandparents raising their grandchildren participated in a home-based nutrition and physical activity intervention. The primary goals were to increase grandparents' knowledge and skills in selecting and preparing healthy foods and to increase the grandparents' and grandchildren's physical activity levels. Results revealed that grandparents' concerns regarding their chronic diseases and desire to prevent health problems in their grandchildren served as motivators. Following the intervention, grandparents scored higher on nutrition and physical activity knowledge and their self-efficacy improved, although most health status indicators remained unchanged. Self-reported changes included walking more, reading food labels, and switching to a healthier type of fat.
The authors would like to thank the staff of Project Healthy Grandparents and, in particular, Dr. Dorothy Carrillo, former Associate Director of Operations, Georgia State University, for their enthusiastic support of this project, and Jeremy Russie, a student at Georgia State University, who completed initial work on the project proposal. This study was supported by a grant from the Office of Community Services, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Notes
During the time of the study, Judith Lynch and Tamara Busby were graduate students in the Division of Nutrition, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia.