Families Improving Together (FIT) for weight loss: a resource for translation of a positive climate-based intervention into community settings.

ABSTRACT: Climate-based weight loss interventions, or those that foster a nurturing family environment, address important ecological influences typically ignored by the traditional biomedical treatments. Promoting a climate characterized by positive communication, autonomy support, and parental warmth supports adolescents in making healthy behavioral changes. In addition, encouraging these skills within the family may have additional benefits of improved family functioning and other mental and physical health outcomes. Although several programs have identified essential elements and established the evidence base for the efficacy of these interventions, few have offered resources for the translation of these constructs from theoretical concepts to tangible practice. This paper provides strategies and

SUBMITTER: Law LH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7543080 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature