Testing a multicomponent lifestyle intervention for combatting childhood obesity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Childhood obesity is a major global health concern. Weight-management camps involving delivery of a program of physical activity, health education, and healthy eating are an effective treatment, although post-intervention weight-management is less well understood. Our objective was to assess the effectiveness of a weight-management camp followed by a community intervention in supporting weight-management for overweight children and children with obesity.

Methods

Participants were overweight Qatari schoolchildren or schoolchildren with obesity, ages 8-14 years, (n = 300) recruited over a three-year period across 14 randomly selected schools in the Doha area. They attended a two-week weight management camp, then a 10-week program of weekly lifestyle education and ph

SUBMITTER: Vlaev I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8082655 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature