Why Do Parents Enrol in a Childhood Obesity Management Program?

Despite the high prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity enrolment to weight management programs remains difficult, time consuming, costly and has limited effectiveness. Previous studies explored barrier to recruitment into children’s weight management programs but only a few have explored the issue from the perspective of the parent or applied a theoretical framework to describing the decision to enrol in a weight management program. The aim of this paper was to understand what factor s influence parental decision to enrol in the Parenting, Eating and Activity for Child Health Program, a program for childhood obesity management.