Clinical trial NCT01004341: Role of Parenting Skills and Parenting Style in Pediatric Weight Loss Programs
Official title: Role of Parenting Skills, Style and Family Functioning in Pediatric Weight Loss
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Pediatric Obesity
Keywords: pediatric obesity
parenting style
feeding style
behavioral skills
parenting skills
family meals
Lead sponsor: University of California, San Diego
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
name: Brown University
First posted: 2009-10-29
Enrollment: 44
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 8
Maximum age (years): 12
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: 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: 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.

Eligibility criteria: 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

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in parenting skills and parenting style
timeFrame: 0 and 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in child BMI z-score
timeFrame: 0 and 6 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: La Jolla
country: United States
facility: University of California, San Diego
state: California
Study officials:
affiliation: University of California, San Diego
name: Kyung E Rhee, MD, MSc
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Rhee KE, Lumeng JC, Appugliese DP, Kaciroti N, Bradley RH. Parenting styles and overweight status in first grade. Pediatrics. 2006 Jun;117(6):2047-54. doi: 10.1542/peds.2005-2259.
citation: Rhee KE, Jelalian E, Boutelle K, Dickstein S, Seifer R, Wing R. Warm Parenting Associated with Decreasing or Stable Child BMI during Treatment. Child Obes. 2016 Apr;12(2):94-102. doi: 10.1089/chi.2015.0127. Epub 2016 Feb 19.