Descriptive study of carers' support, encouragement and modelling of healthy lifestyle behaviours in residential out-of-home care.

CONCLUSION: Carer knowledge of healthy lifestyles can be improved and they need to be well resourced to ensure children in public care settings live in a healthy environment. IMPLICATIONS: These findings may inform the development of ongoing professional development to improve carers' health literacy, as well as policy to support dietary/activity guidelines for the OOHC sector. PMID: 26123118 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26123118?dopt=Abstract

Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health - June 29, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Cox R, Skouteris H, Fuller-Tyszkiewicz M, Jones AD, Gallant D, Omerogullari S, Miller R, Hardy LL Tags: Aust N Z J Public Health Source Type: research