Abstract
To examine the effects of parental involvement and family environment on weight loss in obese preadolescents, 40 dyads, consisting of an overweight parent and an overweight 9- to 13-year-old child, were assigned to parent-plus-child (n=16) or child-only (n=15) behavioral treatment groups or a waiting list control group (n=9). While children and parents in both treatment groups received complete written lessons, only children and parents in the parent-plus-child group also attended treatment sessions. Children in both treatment groups lost a significant amount of weight during treatment and maintained their losses through the 1-year follow-up period. In contrast, children in the control group gained a significant amount of weight by the 3-month follow-up. Dyads in the parent-plus-child group showed lower attrition, equivalent child weight reduction and maintenance, and better parental weight loss maintenance than dyads in the child-only group. These results and others obtained via self-report measures and intradyad correlations of weight change indicate that the family environment may play a very important role in treatment outcome achieved by behavioral weight loss therapy for preadolescents.
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