Enrolment of families with overweight children into a program aimed at reducing childhood obesity with and without a weight criterion: a natural experiment

Table 1 Summary of PEACH™ QLD timeline with targeted versus universal eligibility criteria

	Targeted Eligibility Criterion (TEC)	Universal Eligibility Criterion (UEC)
Program Wave	Waves 1–4	Wave 5
Date range	October 2013–April 2016	February – September 2016
Age criterion	5–11 years	Primary school aged^a
Weight criterion	Above healthy weight only	All weight categories were accepted
Residence	Families must reside in Queensland

^aIn Queensland, children are able to commence primary school from 4 years, depending on when their date of birth falls in the calendar year. The age criteria (5–11 years) meant that some primary school aged children were not eligible to enrol. In Wave 5 the extension to ‘primary school age’ was made to streamline recruitment strategies [16]

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