Family-based behavioural treatment of childhood obesity in a UK National Health Service setting: randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The best outcomes for treating childhood obesity have come from comprehensive family-based programmes. However there are questions over their generalizability.

Objective

To examine the acceptability and effectiveness of 'family-based behavioural treatment' (FBBT) for childhood obesity in an ethnically and socially diverse sample of families in a UK National Health Service (NHS) setting.

Methods

In this parallel group, randomized controlled trial, 72 obese children were randomized to FBBT or a waiting-list control. Primary outcomes were body mass index (BMI) and BMI s.d. scores (SDSs). Secondary outcomes were weight, weight SDSs, height, height SDSs, waist, waist SDSs, FM index, FFM index, blood pressure (BP) and psychosocial measures. The outcomes were asse

SUBMITTER: Croker H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3272466 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature