Table 5.

Pilot Study Themes and Supporting Quotes

Themes	Supporting quotes
Parents
5. Engagement Though Intervention Content and Social Connections	5.1 “To me, it caught my attention when they called and talked to me about the many things they were going to cover – nutrition issues, drug issues - things that were to be discussed during the program, and how to prepare them to reach high school with a better way to confront these problems.”
	5.2 “What captured my attention was thinking, ‘okay, my daughter is having difficulty at this time with communication, has had some personal problems that have led to a lot of miscommunication…’”
	5.3 “I was motivated a lot by the fact that [my son] would be interacting with more children his age, who are in the same school, or, and in the same grade, because he is a very quiet child… And then to be interacting with more children, and me with more mothers that way we can learn from each other’s experience and about the children.”
	5.4 “[It is] an opportunity to be together with [my daughter], share and do something that would unite us more…”
6. Enthusiasm for Hands-On Nutrition Training	6.1 “I loved it! I loved how they got us involved – you cut, you peel, or whatever, and the kids, too - we were all doing something, participating and learning.”
	6.2 “We are learning to eat other foods, but healthy. Other ideas, other ways of combining foods that are normally not eaten or that we had never thought of eating that way and that taste good and are good for us.”
7. Perceived Improvements in Positive Parenting Skills and Family Cohesion	7.1 “They’ve helped me guide my son a little better, to communicate better with him, not to impose things, because he’s no longer a small child. That has helped me tremendously. Thanks to this group, I’ve learned a lot.”
	7.2 “[We learned] how we should engage with them, new friends, with friends, interacting with them. That is, getting involved in a way that they do not see us as intruders, in other words, discreetly, how to [get involved] to know who they are interacting with, who are their friends, relatives of friends, and all that.”
	7.3 “What my son liked was doing activities with the parents … [it’s] not that he does [the activity] better or that he wins, simply the act of doing it together. He feels it’s fun and likes it – seeing the parents running, or watching the parents dance like [the adolescents], or if we don’t do it well, he laughs. He likes that. He has liked that a lot.”
8. Importance of Social Climate	8.1 “There has not been criticism; there has been enthusiasm for helping one another… Even after the sessions, we talk amongst ourselves about our personal experiences.”
Adolescents
9. Enthusiasm for Physical Activity	9.1 The most favorite part would be, of course, the games because it’s really fun and you get to learn something new.”
	9.2 “[Coaches] have really fun activities to do outside, so it makes us sweat, but also feel good at the same time. And we’re getting exercise, so yeah.”
	9.3 “Yeah, as long as we’re outside. Like if you keep me stuck inside a room for like the whole time, I get tired.”
10. Desire for Increased Parental Engagement in Physical Activity	10.1 “I think the parents should do exercise too, that’s why in Zumba they did exercise, but I think that going outside and sharing with us exercise every day like how we do it.”
	10.2 “I like it because I think it’s like sharing more time with mom and how to do more, do more things together. I think it’s a great idea because like that we are both learning at the same time.”
	10.3 “I think when they put the parents and the kids together is to have that connection to the activities… we would have like, an experience of what we could do further in our lives.”
11. Appreciation for Increased Time and Improved Relationship With Parents	11.1 “We got a bit closer. We’re spending more time with each other.”
	11.2 “With my mom, I can’t really explain. I think like with communication. Now we communicate better. Not like yelling.”
	11.3 “It’s that, I never trusted my mom as much as I do now. I now get along with her since coming here.”