Healthy Change Intervention: A Cluster RCT in Preschooler Mothers in Mexico and the United States.

Objective: To assess effects of Healthy Change intervention on maternal perception of her child's body weight (MPCW), maternal feeding style, and obesogenic home environment.

Methods: A randomized control trial was conducted, consisting of two arms: the intervention group received the Healthy Change program, and the control group received the Hygiene and Accident Prevention program. A total of 356 mother-preschool child dyads participated, 182 in the intervention group and 174 in the control group, residing in Mexico and the United States.

Quality of life related to functional dependence, family functioning and social support in older adults.

Objective: to determine the relationship between quality of life and functional dependence, family functioning and social support in older adults in northeastern Mexico.

Method: this is a quantitative, descriptive and analytical study, with 205 older adults. The Barthel Index, Lawton and Brody Scale, APGAR test, Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support and WHOQOL-BREF were applied.

[HIV risk perception and safe sex in migrants from the northern border of Mexico].

Introduction: In 2019, 9,828 new cases of HIV and 5,825 of AIDS were detected in Mexico, the migrant population is considered highly vulnerable, which is presumed to be due to unfavorable conditions in their transit through the country, an important variable in the context of sexual health is the perception that they may have about being or not at risk. A study of perception of contracting HIV can have important implications for health.

Objective: To determine the association between the perception of risk for HIV and safe sex in migrants from the northern border of Mexico.

Study protocol: intervention in maternal perception of preschoolers' weight among Mexican and Mexican-American mothers.

Background: Childhood obesity is a public health issue negatively affecting children's physical and psychosocial health. Mothers are children's primary caregivers, thus key players in childhood obesity prevention. Studies have indicated that mothers underestimate their children's weight.

[Maternal actions and problems in managing the child's weight and their association with the maternal perception of the weight and age of her child].

Introduction: To properly perceive the child's weight may influence the mother to start up changes to prevent and manage overweight problems.

Objectives: 1) To assess whether the actions and problems to manage the child's weight are different according to the nutritional status and the perception on the child's weight; and 2) to assess whether the actions and problems are different according to the child's age.

Methods: 2840 mothers and sons/daughters (age 2-17 years) from North-eastern Mexico participated.

Maternal Eating and Physical Activity Strategies and their Relation with Children's Nutritional Status.

Objectives: to describe the maternal eating and physical activity strategies (monitoring, discipline, control, limits and reinforcement) [MEES]; to determine the relation between MEES and the child's nutritional status [body mass index (BMI) and body fat percentage (BFP)]; to verify whether the MEES differ according to the child's nutritional status.

Method: participants were 558 mothers and children (3 to 11 years of age) who studied at public schools. The Parental Strategies for Eating and Activity Scale (PEAS) was applied and the child's weight, height and BFP were measured.

[Benefits and barriers perceived by Mexican adolescents for consuming fruit and vegetables].

The objectives of this descriptive study were to establish the benefits and barriers perceived by adolescents for consuming fruit and vegetables, and to determine gender differences. A random sample of 829 adolescents attending public secondary schools in Matamoros, Tamaulipas was recruited (398 were males, and 431) with a mean age of 13.11 +/- 0.