An innovative technology-based intervention to address childhood obesity

Current Australian public health services for personalised child overweight and obesity treatment have limited geographical reach. Given the prevalence of childhood obesity, Australian public health services need more timely and cost-effective methods to efficiently address high levels of demand for personalised child weight management consultation, advice and support. This is particularly crucial to those who have difficulty accessing currently available services. One of the challenges in the field is translating research findings into evidence-based public health and clinical practice in partnership with health services in order to actively disseminate them and with wide uptake. My thesis presents a series of research studies that aimed to develop and evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a novel technology-based intervention that was developed alongside current services in New South Wales and that has the potential to be translated into health services widely in Australia to support families in improving child weight status and dietary outcomes.