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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Contemp Clin Trials. 2015 Mar 30;42:145–157. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2015.03.009

Table 3.

Description of Online Behavior Content

Section Content Description Primary Tailoring Variables
Introduction
  • Describes why the selected behavior is important

  • Describes what's recommended for the target behavior

  • Reflects on how the child is doing

  • Compares data from post measure assessment with baseline data for the target behavior

  • Child and parent baseline report of behavior

  • Child and parent post group assessment report of behavior

  • Whether behavior is in behavior change vs. maintenance stage

  • Cultural Values

  • Personal Values

  • TSRQ

How It’s Going Focus on parent barriers and communication issues around being autonomy supportive and encouraging behavior. Includes the following topics:
  • How are you & child talking about this?

  • Who's helping you help your child? How are you helping your kid?

  • How are you monitoring your child's progress?

  • Are you being autonomy supportive? (highlight discrepancy between kid & parent, if it exists)

  • What gets in the way of you being autonomy supportive?

  • Parent and child report of communication

  • Autonomy support

  • Social support for diet and physical activity

  • Child Feeding Questionnaire

  • Parent barriers

  • Spirituality

  • Importance of cultural foods

  • Ethnic identity

Weekly Strategy Review of parenting strategy matched to the behavior (see note below). Each weekly strategy includes:
  • What it is

  • How to use it

  • When to use it

  • Whether behavior is in behavior change vs. maintenance stage

  • Parent and child report of communication

  • Autonomy support

  • Spirituality

  • Gender roles

Strategy Practice Includes activities to help parent practice the weekly strategy. The page for each strategy is different. For example (for Push vs. Pull): “Each of the sentences below is written in a ‘push’ tone. Re-write each sentence in a ‘pull’ tone.”
  • Weekly strategy

  • Autonomy support

Conversation Practice Review of a motivational interviewing inspired conversation that parent could have with child about the target behavior. Example conversation incorporates the weekly strategy. Parents are provided information on how to ask child:
  • What is going well?

  • What has been difficult?

  • What is good/bad about the behavior?

  • Why would/wouldn’t child work on this behavior?

  • Discuss menu of options for working on target behavior.

  • What aspect, if any, of this behavior would child and parent like to work on for the next week? (set parent goal and child goal together each week)

  • Whether behavior is in behavior change vs. maintenance stage

  • Parent and child report of communication

  • Autonomy support

  • Gender roles

  • Cultural values

  • Parent and child personal values

  • Weekly strategy

Conversation Worksheet Printable page that includes question prompts and space for writing notes. The parent uses this form to help guide their conversation with the child.
  • Weekly strategy

Special Features List of items that are helpful to parents, no matter the behavior. Examples include:
  • Why is it good to be autonomy supportive?

  • How to set good goals

  • How to monitor in an autonomy supportive way

Content copied from other program sections.

Note: Behavior + Parenting Strategy Pairs: Energy Balance/Meeting a Calorie Goal - Active Listening; Fast Food - Reverse Role Play; Fruits & Vegetables - Increasing Engagement; Physical Activity - Escape Hatch, Volition, Choice; Time Spent Sitting - You provide, they decide; Sweet Drinks - Push vs. Pull