Role of Parenting Skills and Parenting Style in Pediatric Weight Loss Programs

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

44 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2009-06-30

Study Completion Date

2012-05-31

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the role of different parenting skills and parenting styles in the success of children enrolled in a family-based behavioral weight control program and to compare these skills and styles to those used by families with normal weight children.

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Detailed Description

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Pediatric overweight has nearly tripled in the past several decades and while family-based behavioral weight control programs are the mainstay of treatment, there is considerable variability in their outcomes. Parents play an important role in the success of their children, particularly by implementing new behavioral skills. However recent evidence has also suggested that parenting style, or the way a parent interacts with their child and provides emotional support and discipline, may be another key element in pediatric weight control. Our goal is to evaluate the role of specific parenting (behavioral) skills and parenting style in the success of children enrolled in a standard family-based behavioral weight control intervention. Our goal is to examine whether specific parenting (behavioral) skills and parenting style change during the intervention and whether or not this change is related to changes in the child's BMI z-score.

Conditions

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Pediatric Obesity

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Family-based weight control

Group-based family therapy for weight loss in children age 8-12 years.

Group Type OTHER

Family-based behavioral weight control intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Standard behavioral weight control program for children ages 8-12 years old and their parents in a family-based intervention.

Interventions

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Family-based behavioral weight control intervention

Standard behavioral weight control program for children ages 8-12 years old and their parents in a family-based intervention.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* children between and including the ages of 8-12 years old
* child BMI \>= 85th percentile
* parent willing to attend all treatment meetings
* parent and child must be able to speak, read, and understand English

Exclusion Criteria

* a family member who is participating in another weight loss program
* the child has any serious medical problem that would limit his/her participation in the study, for example, gastrointestinal diseases, cardiac disease, immune compromised state, chronic steroid use or other medication that impacts weight, developmental delays.
* child with serious food allergies that would compromise adherence to dietary recommendations
* any family member has a major psychiatric disease or organic brain syndrome
* family is going to move outside the metropolitan area within the time frame of the study

Minimum Eligible Age

8 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

12 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No