Cobenefits for Participants of a Nurse-Led Telephone-Based Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Intervention: A Multimethod Qualitative Study.

The cobenefits were identified from nurses' notes and nurses' focus group views, not directly from mothers or children, so they may be incomplete or interpreted through the nurses' perspective. The call notes were existing clinical data not collected to measure cobenefits, so some benefits may not have been recorded or captured. The focus group involved only the intervention nurses, and the facilitator had worked with them before the study, which may have shaped what was said. Findings may not apply to other interventions, providers, populations or delivery modes. The study describes perceived or reported benefits and does not test whether the intervention caused them or whether they improved health outcomes. The underlying trial's primary child BMI outcome did not show a clear effect, so this qualitative substudy should not be read as changing that result.

Funded by NSW Health and the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council. The authors declared no conflicts of interest and said the funders had no role in study design, conduct, data collection, management, analysis, manuscript preparation, review, approval, or submission.

Do not read this as proof that nurse telephone support caused family benefits or improved child health. The study reports nurses' notes and perceptions, and the underlying trial did not show a clear effect on child BMI.