Clinic and Home-Based Behavioral Intervention for Obesity in Preschoolers: A Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To test the hypotheses that an innovative skills-based behavioral family clinic and home-based intervention (LAUNCH) would reduce body mass index z score (BMIz) compared with motivational interviewing and to standard care in preschool-aged children with obesity.

Study design

Randomized controlled trial with children between the ages of 2 and 5 years above the 95^th percentile for body mass index for age and sex recruited from 27 pediatrician offices across 10 recruitment cycles between March 12, 2012 and June 8, 2015. Children were randomized to LAUNCH (an 18-session clinic and home-based behavioral intervention), motivational interviewing (delivered at the same frequency as LAUNCH), or standard care (no formal intervention). Weight and height were measur

SUBMITTER: Stark LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5732872 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature