Dose, Content, and Mediators of Family-Based Treatment for Childhood Obesity: A Multisite Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Elucidation of optimal dosing and treatment content is critical for health care providers, payers, and policy makers, as well as mechanisms of change to inform intervention delivery and training initiatives for childhood obesity.

Objectives

To evaluate effects, following a 4-month family-based behavioral weight loss treatment (FBT), of 2 doses (HIGH or LOW) of a weight-control intervention (enhanced social facilitation maintenance [SFM+]) vs a weight-control education condition (CONTROL; matched for dose with LOW), on child anthropometrics, and to explore putative mediators of weight loss outcomes.

Design, setting, and participants

For this parallel-group randomized clinical trial conducted at 2 US academic medical centers from December 2009 to March 2013,

SUBMITTER: Wilfley DE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6169780 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature