Saga Stories in Health Talks in Primary Child Healthcare

An Effectiveness-implementation Hybrid Trial to Evaluate a Health Promotion Intervention Within Swedish Primary Child Healthcare: Saga Stories in Health Talks

Primary child healthcare in Sweden is an important arena for health promotion interventions as nurses regularly meet parents and children from birth to five years of age. To date there is a lack of evidence-based material for child healthcare nurses to use in health promotion talks within primary child healthcare. Therefore, the aims of this study are to: (i) evaluate the effectiveness of Saga Stories in health talks on parental self-efficacy to promote healthy diet, physical activity, and screen time behaviours in 5-year-old children and (ii) evaluate the implementation of Saga Stories in health talks with regards to acceptability, appropriateness, feasibility, fidelity, adoption, sustainability, satisfaction, and usage.

Inclusion Criteria:

• The parent the accompanies the child to the 5-year check-up at primary child healthcare needs to be able to understand Swedish sufficiently well in order to provide informed consent and partake in the Saga Stories health talk.

Exclusion Criteria:

• None