Setting and participants

The meeting was held at McMaster University on March 4th, 2015. We used LimeSurvey^TM to register participants. Stakeholders including parents, children and youth, healthcare and public health professionals, students, administrators, and researchers were invited to participate.

The meeting included two parts. In the first part, presentations by healthcare experts focused on current understanding of the pathways to diabesity. These presentations  included the consideration of themes as to whether diabesity is an addiction to food, and whether obesity and T2DM are disabilities.20,21 Finally, there was a focused review on the lifestyle factors and mechanisms driving childhood and adolescent diabesity.

In the second part, roundtable discussions took place to design the diabesity prevention program. The discussions involved four domains including nutrition, physical activity (PA), sleep, and mental health with two station runs per theme. There were 6–7 participants in each group, with two researchers facilitating and documenting the discussions per group.

Three open-ended questions were posed to participants:

What elements should be included in the design of the intervention?

How should this intervention be presented/implemented?

What outcomes should be measured and how?