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

Study Overview
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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.

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.

Official Title
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Role of Parenting Skills, Style and Family Functioning in Pediatric Weight Loss

Conditions
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Pediatric Obesity

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Family-based behavioral weight control intervention


Participation Criteria
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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

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 8 Years
Maximum Age: 12 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Treatment
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Other: Family-based weight control<br>Group-based family therapy for weight loss in children age 8-12 years. | Behavioral: Family-based behavioral weight control intervention<br>* Standard behavioral weight control program for children ages 8-12 years old and their parents in a family-based intervention.<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Change in parenting skills and parenting style |  | 0 and 6 months | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Change in child BMI z-score |  | 0 and 6 months | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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pediatric obesity, parenting style, feeding style, behavioral skills, parenting skills, family meals