Wellness Coaching for Kids and families (WC4K): Reducing Childhood Obesity through Motivational Interviewing
Rates of childhood obesity in the U.S. remain at historic highs. Primary care settings lack interventions to address the childhood obesity epidemic that are feasible and sustainable without requiring significant resources. We will test a motivational interviewing-based intervention shown to lower children’s BMI in a real-world clinical setting with the goal of halting and reversing the childhood obesity epidemic.