Background: Few successful treatment modalities exist to address childhood obesity. Given Latinos’
strong identity with family, a family-focused intervention may be able to control Latino
childhood obesity.
Purpose: To assess the feasibility and effectiveness of a family-centered, primary care– based
approach to control childhood obesity through lifestyle choices.
Design: Randomized waitlist controlled trial in which control participants received the intervention
6 months after the intervention group.
Setting/participants: Forty-one Latino children with BMI 85%, aged 9–12 years, and their
caregivers were recruited from an urban community health center located in a predominantly
low-income community.
Intervention: Children and their caregivers received 6 weeks of interactive group classes followed
by 6 months of culturally sensitive monthly in-person or phone coaching to empower families to
incorporate learned lifestyles and to address both family and social barriers to making changes.
Main outcomes measures: Caregiver report on child and child self-reported health-related
quality of life (HRQoL); metabolic markers of obesity; BMI; and accelerometer-based physical
activity were measured July 2010–November 2011 and compared with post-intervention assessments
conducted at 6 months and as a function of condition assignment. Data were analyzed in 2012.
Results: Average attendance rate to each group class was 79%. Socio-environmental and family
factors, along with knowledge, were cited as barriers to changing lifestyles to control obesity.
Caregiver proxy and child self-reported HRQoL improved for both groups with a larger but not
nonsignifıcant difference among intervention vs control group children (p0.33). No differences
were found between intervention and control children for metabolic markers of obesity, BMI, or
physical activity.
Conclusions: Latino families are willing to participate in group classes and health coaching to
control childhood obesity. It may be necessary for primary care to partner with community initiatives
to address childhood obesity in a more intense manner.
Trial registration: This study is registered at Clinicaltrials.partners.org 2009P001721.
Background: Few successful treatment modalities exist to address childhood obesity. Given Latinos’
strong identity with family, a family-focused intervention may be able to control Latino
childhood obesity.
Purpose: To assess the feasibility and effectiveness of a family-centered, primary care– based
approach to control childhood obesity through lifestyle choices.
Design: Randomized waitlist controlled trial in which control participants received the intervention
6 months after the intervention group.
Setting/participants: Forty-one Latino children with BMI 85%, aged 9–12 years, and their
caregivers were recruited from an urban community health center located in a predominantly
low-income community.
Intervention: Children and their caregivers received 6 weeks of interactive group classes followed
by 6 months of culturally sensitive monthly in-person or phone coaching to empower families to
incorporate learned lifestyles and to address both family and social barriers to making changes.
Main outcomes measures: Caregiver report on child and child self-reported health-related
quality of life (HRQoL); metabolic markers of obesity; BMI; and accelerometer-based physical
activity were measured July 2010–November 2011 and compared with post-intervention assessments
conducted at 6 months and as a function of condition assignment. Data were analyzed in 2012.
Results: Average attendance rate to each group class was 79%. Socio-environmental and family
factors, along with knowledge, were cited as barriers to changing lifestyles to control obesity.
Caregiver proxy and child self-reported HRQoL improved for both groups with a larger but not
nonsignifıcant difference among intervention vs control group children (p0.33). No differences
were found between intervention and control children for metabolic markers of obesity, BMI, or
physical activity.
Conclusions: Latino families are willing to participate in group classes and health coaching to
control childhood obesity. It may be necessary for primary care to partner with community initiatives
to address childhood obesity in a more intense manner.
Trial registration: This study is registered at Clinicaltrials.partners.org 2009P001721.
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