fruehstArt Programme

Outpatient rehabilitation lasts 6 months at two sessions per week combining group and individual appointments, while inpatient rehabilitation lasts approximately 4 weeks on-site. fruehstArt combines home-based counselling by trained coaches with an e-health platform and web app, and integrates these with existing SHI-funded services and municipal offerings. The three core innovative components of fruehstArt are outreach home-based counselling, a web-based e-health platform, and cross-sectoral integration of SHI, DRV, and municipal services. For children with obesity (BMI above the 97th percentile), paediatricians can prescribe DRV-funded rehabilitation programmes. fruehstArt is a family-centred, cross-sectoral, outreach-based overweight and obesity prevention programme for preschool children in the North Rhine region of Germany.