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Table 1 Overview and evaluation of three PEACHâ„¢ iterations to-date

From: CONSORT to community: translation of an RCT to a large-scale community intervention and learnings from evaluation of the upscaled program

Stage of translation:

Stage 1: Randomised-Controlled Trial (CONSORT)

Stage 2: Small-scale community trial (COMMUNITY I)

Stage 3: Large-scale community intervention (COMMUNITY II)

PEACHâ„¢ RCT [7]

PEACHâ„¢ IC [33]

PEACHâ„¢ QLD

n participants

n = 169 families; n = 169 children

n = 62 families; n = 78 children

n = 919 families; n = 1122 children

n groups

n = 6

n = 8

n = 105

n facilitators

n = 3 delivered sessions

n = 12 delivered sessions; n = 54 trained

n = 52 delivered sessions; n = 80 trained

Program overview and setting

â–ª Single-blinded RCT with 2 intervention groups (1) 12× parenting (P) and healthy lifestyle (HL) group sessions OR (2) 8× HL group sessions 90- to 120-min group sessions, both with 4× one-to-one phone calls, delivered over 6 months with tapered frequency (weekly, fortnightly, then monthly)

â–ª Multi-site (Sydney and Adelaide)

â–ª 10× 90-min fortnightly face-to-face group HL sessions incorporating P skills with 3× one-to-one phone calls over 6 months

â–ª South Australia

â–ª 10× 90-min face-to-face group HL sessions incorporating P skills, with 3 one-to-one phone calls over 6 months

▪ Sessions 1–9 initially held fortnightly, changed to weekly during program delivery

â–ª Queensland

Evaluation

Trial registration

✓ ACTR00001104; ACTRN12606000120572

✗

✓ ACTRN12617000315314

Program delivery (logistics)

✓

✓

✓

Demographics

✓ family, parent and child

✓ family, parent and child

✓ family, parent and child

Anthropometry

✓ parent and child

✓ child

✓ child

Child diet

✓ parent-reported

✓ parent-reported

✓ parent-reported

Child activity

✓ parent-reported

✓ parent-reported

✓ parent-reported

Child quality of life

✓ parent- and child-reported

✗

✓ child-reported

Parenting

✓ parent-reported

✗

✓ parent-reported

Program satisfaction

✓ parent-reported

✓ parent-reported

✓ parent- and child-reported

Child body image

✓ child-reported

✓ child-reported

✗

Follow-up

✓ up to 5 years

✓ only to 6 months

✓ only to 6 months

Program fidelity

✓ independently assessed from audio recordings of sessions

✓ informal only

✓ facilitator-reported

Facilitator training/delivery

✓

✓ pre- and post-training, post-delivery

✓ pre- and post-training, post-delivery

Clinical biochemistry

✓ child

✗

✗

Follow-up parent interviews

✓ 12 months

✗

✗

Service-level evaluation

✗

✓

✓

System-level evaluation

✗

✗

✓

  1. HL healthy lifestyle, P parenting