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2. Parental involvement does not augment the effectiveness of an intense behavioral program for the treatment of childhood obesity

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Eirini Bathrellou, Christina Kanaka-Gantenbein, Artemios Pehlivanidis, George P. Chrousos, Ioanna Tokou, Katerina Papanikolaou, Mary Yannakoulia, Panagiota Pervanidou, John Tsiantis, and Labros S. Sidossis

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Male, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Time Factors, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, medicine.medical_treatment, Health Behavior, Psychology, Child, Overweight, Childhood obesity, Body Mass Index, Active phase, Weight management, Weight Loss, Medicine, Humans, Obesity, Parent-Child Relations, Child, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, business.industry, Significant difference, General Medicine, Social Control, Informal, medicine.disease, Cognitive behavioral therapy, Treatment Outcome, Female, medicine.symptom, Augment, business, Risk Reduction Behavior
Abstract

ObJEctIVE: to evaluate the effectiveness of active parental involvement in a lifestyle inter vention for the management of childhood obesity. DEsIGN: Forty-two overweight children (32 girls and 10 boys), aged 9.2±0.2 years and with percent overweight 39.8±2.7%, were randomly allocated either to a child-and-parent group (N = 23) or a child-alone group (N = 19). groups attended a 3-month multidisciplinary program extended by booster sessions during follow-up, which involved many cognitive behavioral therapy principles and assigned high self-regulation to the children, but differed in parental involvement. Percent overweight was evaluated at baseline, and at 3, 6, and 18 months thereafter. rEsULts: there was no signifi cant interaction between time and group or a significant difference between groups. Percent overweight decreased by 4.9±1.4 at 18 months (p

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2010

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