Maintenance Outcomes of the Children's Healthy Living Program on Overweight, Obesity, and Acanthosis Nigricans Among Young Children in the US-Affiliated Pacific Region: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Few obesity prevention trials among children have demonstrated sustainable outcomes in the long term.

Objectives

To sustain a community-wide decrease in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among young children in the US-affiliated Pacific region.

Design, setting, and participants

In the Children's Healthy Living community-randomized clinical trial, hierarchical modeling comparing the change in intervention and control communities accounted for community randomization (community clustering with jurisdictions), and adjusted for the age and sex distribution of the assessed children in a cross-sectional design. The outcome measures were repeated in communities rather than among individual children. A total of 27 communities in 5 jurisdictions (Hawai'i, Ala

SUBMITTER: Novotny R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9171559 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature