{"id":925,"date":"2017-07-07T15:07:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T05:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/nutrition\/?p=925"},"modified":"2017-07-07T15:07:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T05:37:27","slug":"peach-lifestyle-update-on-progress-and-call-for-participants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/nutrition\/2017\/07\/07\/peach-lifestyle-update-on-progress-and-call-for-participants\/","title":{"rendered":"PEACH lifestyle: update on progress and call for participants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PEACH<sup> TM<\/sup> (Parenting Eating and Activity for Child Health) program is a family-based program that provides parents of primary-school aged children with the skills to improve their children\u2019s eating and physical activity. PEACH<sup>TM<\/sup> has a long history, starting in 2004 as <a href=\"http:\/\/pediatrics.aappublications.org\/content\/127\/2\/214.full\">a randomised control trial<\/a> (RCT) with 169 families of moderately obese 5-9 year olds in Adelaide and Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>This RCT showed significant improvements in children\u2019s dietary and activity behaviours and in their degree of overweight. In 2008 it was then trialled in the \u2018real life\u2019 practice setting in South Australia as PEACH<sup>TM <\/sup>in the Community, before being run state-wide in QLD from 2013 \u2013 2016 (i.e. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peachqld.com.au\/\">PEACH<sup>TM<\/sup> QLD<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In 2016 <a href=\"http:\/\/peachlifestyle.com.au\/\">PEACH<sup>TM<\/sup> Lifestyle<\/a> began \u2013 a FREE online version of PEACH<sup>TM<\/sup> program, using materials developed from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peachqld.com.au\/\">PEACH<sup>TM<\/sup> QLD<\/a>. This version involves 10 x online tutorials, discussion forums and 6 x live chat group discussion sessions over approximately 6 months. Children do not need to be overweight to join in: the program aims to prevent these problems from occurring whilst also giving parents the skills to manage these problems as a family if they already exist. PEACH<sup>TM<\/sup> lifestyle is provided solely <em>online<\/em>, to overcome the challenges families face due to the busy lives that they lead.<\/p>\n<p>Providing support online is successful because of the greater flexibility, ability to learn at your own pace and increased interaction with the material provided.<\/p>\n<p>Since September 2016 we have had interest in PEACH<sup>TM<\/sup> Lifestyle from over 150 families. Two groups have completed the entire program and there are another two groups currently running over Terms 2 and 3. There are a further two groups planned to start in July and August \u2013 to be run over Terms 3 and 4. To find out more, you can email us at <a href=\"mailto:peach.lifestyle@flinders.edu.au\">peach.lifestyle@flinders.edu.au<\/a> or call <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/people\/lucy.bell\">Dr Lucinda Bell<\/a> on 08 8204 5957. Please also like and follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PEACHLifestyleProgram\/\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peachlifestyle\">Twitter<\/a> to help spread the word about this fantastic program! Registrations can be made online at <a href=\"http:\/\/peachlifestyle.com.au\/\">http:\/\/peachlifestyle.com.au\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PEACH TM (Parenting Eating and Activity for Child Health) program is a family-based program that provides parents of primary-school aged children with the skills to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}