Digital Tools to Support Family-Based Weight Management for Children: Mixed Methods Pilot and Feasibility Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Family-based behavioral therapy is an efficacious approach to deliver weight management counseling to children and their parents. However, most families do not have access to in-person, evidence-based treatment. We previously developed and tested DRIVE (Developing Relationships that Include Values of Eating and Exercise), a home-based parent training program to maintain body weight among children at risk for obesity, with the intent to eventually disseminate it nationally alongside SafeCare, a parent support program that focuses on parent-child interactions. Currently the DRIVE program has only been tested independently of SafeCare. This study created the "mHealth DRIVE" program by further adapting DRIVE to incorporate digital and mobile health tools, including remotely

SUBMITTER: Staiano AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7819774 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature