Two Family Interventions to Reduce BMI in Low-Income Urban Youth: A Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Our primary aim was to evaluate the effects of 2 family-based obesity management interventions compared with a control group on BMI in low-income adolescents with overweight or obesity.

Methods

In this randomized clinical trial, 360 urban-residing youth and a parent were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 behaviorally distinct family interventions or an education-only control group. Eligible children were entering the sixth grade with a BMI ≥85th percentile. Interventions were 3 years in length; data were collected annually for 3 years. Effects of the interventions on BMI slope (primary outcome) over 3 years and a set of secondary outcomes were assessed.

Results

Participants were primarily African American (77%), had a family income of <25 000 per year, and obese

SUBMITTER: Moore SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6565337 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature