Download or read book The Effect of Two Levels of Parental Involvement on Weight Loss of Adolescents Participating in a Behavioral Program microform written by Mark Russell and published by National Library of Canada. This book was released on 1987 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parental Participation in Behavior Therapy for Adolescent Obesity written by Anne Louise Hines and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effects of Parental Involvement in Behavioral Weight Loss Therapy for Preadolescents written by Edward Smith Harris and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effect of Post Treatment Telephone Contact Upon Adolescent Weight Losses Achieved in a Multicomponent Behavioral Treatment Program written by Mary S. Walsh-Doran and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Intervention of Eating and Weight related Problems Via the Internet in Overweight Adolescents written by Angela Ann Celio and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than one out of seven adolescents are currently overweight or obese and the majority of these adolescents are expected to experience compromised mental and physical health over their lifetimes. Body dissatisfaction and the elevated rates of eating disordered behaviors in this population have rarely been addressed in obesity treatment programs. This study evaluated the efficacy of an integrated, Internet-delivered, early intervention approach targeting weight loss, body dissatisfaction, and reduction of eating disordered behaviors in an overweight adolescent sample. Sixty-one 12- to 18-year olds who were overweight or obese (mean BMI percentile = 97.71 ± 2.51) were randomly assigned to Student Bodies 2 (SB2), a 16-week Internet-delivered program utilizing a cognitive-behavioral approach, or typical care (TC). Each week during the program, SB2 participants logged on to the website to read psychoeducational materials, complete online food, physical activity, weight, and body image journals, and participate in an asynchronous group discussion. Assessments were conducted at baseline and at post-treatment. A statistically significant reduction in BMI z-score was found when compared to the TC group (F[1,58] = 6.29, p = .015; ES = 0.19). No statistically significant differences were noted between groups on measures of eating disordered attitudes and behaviors, with the exception of an increase in dietary restraint in the SB2 group (F [1,55] = 4.88, p = .031), which reflected program recommendations. SB2 participants reduced consumption of high-fat foods (F[1,52] = 6.09, p = .017); ES = 0.61), and increased eating-related (F[1,58] = 11.34, p = .001; ES = 0.94) and physical activity-related cognitive and behavioral skills use (F[1,58] = 7.43, p = .008; ES = 0.78). However, none of these variables were shown to be mediators of outcome. SB2 participants also reported reduced stress levels compared to increases in stress in the TC group (F [1,51] = 9.41, p = .003; ES = 0.53). Findings suggest that an Internet-delivered intervention yields a modest reduction in weight status and that body image and eating disordered behaviors are not negatively impacted. Implications include the acceptability of the Internet as a potentially effective modality in the treatment of adolescent obesity and associated conditions.
Download or read book Parental and Family Predictors of Adolescent Weight Loss and Health Change in a Multidisciplinary Obesity Intervention written by Jacqueline Diana Woods and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The home environment, parental health attitudes, and parental diet and exercise behaviors have been associated with childhood obesity. The current study utilized a family systems framework to examine the effect of these variables on weight and health changes in a primarily Black sample of 530 parent-adolescent dyads enrolled in a multidisciplinary weight loss intervention. Parent-reported psychosocial variables and demographic information were used to test models predicting changes in adolescents' body mass index, cholesterol, and percentage body fat over the first six months of the intervention. The effect of parent participation in a psycho-education parent group on adolescent health outcomes was also examined. Several significant demographic, parental, and home environment predictors emerged in the models. By identifying specific aspects of the home environment, parent attitudes, and parent behavior to modify in interventions, these findings have significant implications for the prevention and treatment of childhood obesity.
Download or read book The Relationship Between Parent Participation and Student Success in a Long term Weight Loss Immersion Program written by Susan Mary Trotter Borgman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focused on the relationship between student success in a long-term weight loss immersion treatment program and parent participation in the program; parent participation is defined as engaging in similar healthy behaviors at home while their child is in the program including (1) parents also striving to achieve or maintain a healthy weight; (2) parents self-monitoring of weight loss behaviors/healthy habits; (3) parents reducing/eliminating high fat foods in the home and increasing nonfat/low fat foods in the home; (4) parents improving family support in the home; and (5) parents facilitating healthy family functioning in the home. -- The problem addressed in this study was that parents struggle to understand and embrace their significant role in their children's weight loss process; issues included parent lack of awareness of the epidemic of obesity or the health dangers related to it, challenges in knowing what to do if their child is obese, and a tendency to demonstrate a lack of motivation to change their own behavior. -- This study used a quantitative correlational design with a pretest/posttest and an intervention that was completed over a 10- to 16-week time period from August 20, 2012, to December 8, 2012; recruitment of subjects began in mid-July 2012. The pretest was conducted when parents and their children arrived at the program; the posttest was done at the conclusion of the study in November and December. In October at the midway point when the parents attended the mini-immersion parent workshop, each of the measures taken in the pretest and posttest were taken again to strengthen statistical power. The pretest and posttest consisted of both parent and child independently completing (1) the weigh in, (2) height measurement to calculate BMI, (3) the food checklist (see Appendix A), (4) the social support survey (see Appendices B and C), and (5) the family survey (GF) (see Appendix D). Parent self-monitoring was also measured at the mini-immersion parent workshop in October and at the end of the study in November and December. -- The results indicated no correlation between parent participation and student success due to a very small sample size; only eight families participated because of low enrollment at the facilities used in the study. However, this study did confirm the value of exploring the impact of parent behavior on student success, especially in regard to how parents can modify their behavior (weight loss and self-monitoring) and how parents can modify the home environment (food available in the home, parental support at home, and facilitation of healthy family functioning) to empower their children to achieve a healthy weight.
Download or read book The Sierras Weight Loss Solution for Teens and Kids written by Daniel Kirschenbaum and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-09-06 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned Academy of the Sierras has helped hundreds of children—many severely overweight—achieve significant weight loss and keep it off for good. The first year-round weight-loss program for children and teens in the country, AOS teaches students how to make healthy eating and exercise priorities in their lives forever. For AOS students, losing weight not only helps them look and feel better, it fundamentally transforms their lives—encouraging them to build self-esteem, combat depression, and increase their academic performance. In The Sierras Weight-Loss Solution for Teens and Kids, the founders and program leaders of AOS offer parents everywhere a 12-week proven program based on the school's curriculum. The program gives week-by-week meal plans, recipes, and an exercise regimen, as well as crucial advice for getting the whole family involved in maintaining long-term weight loss. And, it helps kids change their thinking about food, and stay focused and committed to a new healthy lifestyle forever. With inspiring stories from AOS graduates throughout, this book provides the most effective blueprint to ensure lasting success. Academy of the Sierras has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, People, the Sacramento Bee, and the Los Angeles Times, as well as on CNN, Dateline, The Dr. Phil Show, and NPR. In addition to their original school near Fresno, California, AOS is opening a second school in Brevard, North Carolina, in the spring of 2007. In 2008, they are opening a school in the northeast. AOS is operated by Healthy Living Academies, which also runs six Wellspring summer weight-loss camps across the country.
Download or read book Guide to Microforms in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impact of an Obesity Intervention Including Motivational Interviewing on Outcomes for Children and Adolescents written by Christina N. Chin and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With childhood obesity on the rise, there is increasing concern about the prevention and treatment of obesity. Obesity occurs in children/adolescents and is associated with increased health risks and psychosocial problems. Standard treatment options for obesity can include dietary, physical activity, and behavioral therapy. In this project, an enhancement to the current standard treatments was conducted. Motivational Interviewing has been shown to aid in changing weight-related behaviors for adults. The present study evaluated the effects of Motivational Interviewing on children/adolescents preceding an obesity intervention. A multi-method survey approach was utilized. Results indicated that four out of the sixteen participants showed improvement in their readiness to change weight-related behavior. Furthermore, the majority of parents reported that their children showed increased awareness in weight related behaviors, improvement in mood, and positive lifestyle changes. Parental involvement appears to be one significant component in obesity treatments, such that parents supported and reinforced children's healthy weight-related behaviors. Future studies should include a larger pool of participants with a control group and a specific parental involvement component.
Download or read book An Evaluation of the Effect of Two Levels of Dietary Counseling on Body Fat and Weight Loss in a Weight Reduction Program Using Behavior Modification Techniques written by Mary Ruth Zollman and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biological Underpinnings of Adolescent Weight Status and Food Intake Behavior Across Multiple Time Scales and Levels of Analysis written by Nicole Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Obesity is a major health concern in modern societies as it predisposes an individual to a wide range of diseases, and costs billions of dollars annually in health related costs. Individuals who are overweight and obese in adolescence have an alarmingly high risk of adulthood obesity, highlighting this developmental period as an important time to intervene before early health problems cascade into serious health concerns later in life. While the availability and abundance of highly energy dense, palatable foods is the most obvious environmental factor that promotes obesity, diet alone is not the sole cause of obesity development, and not every individual who consumes such foods becomes obese, highlighting important individual differences and vast heterogeneity in the etiology of obesity. Accordingly, this dissertation presents a conceptual model that underscores the importance of studying obesity from hormonal, cellular, neurological, and behavior approaches, across a variety of timescales, in order to understand the etiology and maintenance of this disease. The data used for the three papers of this dissertation were drawn from a pilot study with adolescents ages 12 to 17 with and without obesity, which focused on various components of the conceptual model.Paper 1 used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data to examine the generalizability of reward by examining differences in the anticipation of different reward types (i.e., money, food, neutral) by weight status, food intake behavior, and self-reported Tanner Stage. Our main findings suggest that different patterns of regional activation within the reward circuity are predictive of food intake behavior on the Eating in the Absence of Hunger task. We also found hypo-activation in the anticipation of food rewards in participants with obesity relative to healthy weight adolescence, but no difference in the anticipation to money or neutral rewards. Together, the main findings suggest that particular patterns of regional activation may be more predictive of food intake behavior relative to weight status, and that overweight participants may have a hypo-repose to the anticipation of food rewards in particular regions relative to healthy weight adolescents. Paper 2 moved away from regional differences and examined brain regions as interconnected networks with resting state data, which reflects a history of co-activation. We focused on the Central Executive (CEN), Salience (SAL) and Default Mode Networks (DMN) as they are critical in task-based, reward-related decision-making, and disruptions between and within these networks have been found in various clinical populations (e.g., substance use, schizophrenia), and obesity in adulthood. We applied GIMME models and network metric indices to examine the integration between and within these networks. Our main results suggest a relationship in the CEN and SALs integration with the DMN network as a function of self-reported Tanner Stage. In addition, mean distance between nodes within the CEN were longer in adolescents who were obese, indicative of less interconnected, hub-like nodes. Paper 3 moved from the neural to the behavioral level. The Prospect Valence Model with the Delta Learning Rule (PVL-Delta) was fit to data collected from the Hungry Donkey Task, a child-friendly version of the Iowa Gambling Task. Utilizing the PVL-Delta model, a cognitive reinforcement learning model, takes an iterative approach, and breaks the decision-making process down into constituent process parameters. Our main results showed that participants with greater body fat mass were uniquely sensitive to loss throughout the task, and this sensitivity to loss guided future task-based, decision-making behavior. Current obesity prevention programs are poor, with short-term weight loss at best. Together, these studies stress the need to study obesity from a multi-systems perspective, in order to understand the etiology and persistence of this preventable disease. Findings from these studies shed light on interesting avenues for adolescent obesity intervention programs, such as strengthening connections within the CEN through programs such as biofeedback, or interventions working within a loss aversion framework, such as deposit contract programs.
Download or read book Parent reported Deficits in Executive Function and Sleep disordered Breathing in Adolescent Behavioral Weight Loss Program Participants cJonathan James Mietchen written by Jonathan James Mietchen and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objective: Children and adolescents with obesity and overweight are at increased risk for developing sleep disordered breathing (SDB) and SDB has been associated with cognitive deficits and executive dysfunction. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between executive functioning and SDB among adolescents participating in a behavioral weight loss intervention. Methods: Adolescents (n = 37) and their caregivers completed the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) and caregivers completed the Pediatric Sleep Questionnaire (PSQ). Using the Sleep Related Breathing Disorder scale on the PSQ adolescents were classified as at risk or not at risk for SDB. Correlations were calculated to evaluate associations between executive function and SDB. MANOVA analyses were also conducted to determine whether significant differences in executive function exist between adolescents at risk for SDB, and those not at risk. Results: Significant correlations were found between SDB and executive functioning (r = 0.75; p .001). Significant differences were observed between SDB risk and non-SDB risk groups on the BRIEF parent report (F (1, 35) = 3.73; p
Download or read book Parent reported Deficits in Executive Function and Sleep disordered Breathing in Adolescent Behavioral Weight Loss Program Participants written by Jonathan James Mietchen and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objective: Children and adolescents with obesity and overweight are at increased risk for developing sleep disordered breathing (SDB) and SDB has been associated with cognitive deficits and executive dysfunction. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between executive functioning and SDB among adolescents participating in a behavioral weight loss intervention. Methods: Adolescents (n=37) and their caregivers completed the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) and caregivers completed the Pediatric Sleep Questionnaire (PSQ). Using the Sleep Related Breathing Disorder scale on the PSQ adolescents were classified as at risk or not at risk for SDB. MANOVA nalyses were also conducted to determine whether significant differences in executive function exist between adolescents at risk for SDB, and those not at risk. Results: Significant correlations were found between SDB and executive functioning (r = 0.75; p .001). Significant differences were observed between SDB risk and non-SDB risk groups on the BRIEF parent report (F (1, 35) = 3.73; p
Download or read book The Effect of Spouse Participation on a Behavioral Weight Loss Program written by George Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluation of a Multi faceted School based Intervention for Adolescents who are Overweight Or Obese written by Scott Ryan McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
