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

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Conditions studied: Pediatric Obesity

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01004341

Run by

University of California, San Diego

People needed

44

Starts

2009-06-01

Expected to finish

2012-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-06-19

Who can join

Age: 8 and older, up to 12. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 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

You may not qualify if…

• 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

Where it is running

• University of California, San Diego — La Jolla, California, United States

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