Trial reportJournal of consulting and clinical psychology2012
Behavioral economic predictors of overweight children's weight loss.
Trial report in Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00759746 (Childhood Obesity Treatment), which is not on this map. Cited by 75 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Childhood Obesity Treatment: A Maintenance Approach
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75 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 123 citations in OpenAlex.
- Delay discounting of different outcomes: Review and theory.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2020Pooled it
- Executive Functions in Predicting Weight Loss and Obesity Indicators: A Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
- Diet, physical activity and behavioural interventions for the treatment of overweight or obese children from the age of 6 to 11 years.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Unhealthy diets, obesity and time discounting: a systematic literature review and network analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2016Pooled it
- Neurocognitive correlates of obesity and obesity-related behaviors in children and adolescents.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2014Pooled it
- Reinforcer value moderates response magnitude and persistence during extinction: A randomized trial.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2024Trial
- Reducing relative food reinforcement of infants using a music enrichment program: a randomized, controlled trial.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2022Trial
- Mindfulness-based intervention in adolescents at risk for excess weight gain: 1.5-year follow-up of pilot randomized controlled trial.Eating behaviors · 2021Trial
- Weight-related quality of life and temperament as predictors and moderators of outcomes among treatment-seeking, low-income, ethnically diverse children with obesity.Translational behavioral medicine · 2020Trial
- Improvement of Working Memory is a Mechanism for Reductions in Delay Discounting Among Mid-Age Individuals in an Urban Medically Underserved Area.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2019Trial
- Mindfulness-based group intervention in adolescents at-risk for excess weight gain: A randomized controlled pilot study.Appetite · 2019Trial
- Reduction in food away from home is associated with improved child relative weight and body composition outcomes and this relation is mediated by changes in diet quality.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2015Trial
- Predictors of child weight loss and maintenance among family-based treatment completers.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2014Trial
- Among Multiple Mental Health Symptoms, Only Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Problems Predict Poorer BMI Outcomes in Family-Based Behavioural Treatment for Youth With Severe Obesity.Pediatric obesity · 2026Article
- Leveraging recreational activities to reduce obesity-related behaviors in children from lower-income households.Appetite · 2025Article
- Using Metabolic Testing to Personalize Behavioral Obesity Treatment.Obesity science & practice · 2025Article
- Applying psycho-behavioural phenotyping in obesity characterization.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2023Review
- Paediatric obesity and metabolic syndrome associations with cognition and the brain in youth: Current evidence and future directions.Pediatric obesity · 2023Review
- Relation of BOLD response to food-specific and generic motor response inhibition tasks to body fat gain in adults with overweight and obesity.Physiology & behavior · 2023Article
- Reinforcing value of food, enriched home environment, and changes in percent overweight in children.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2023Article
15 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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10 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveOur goal was to determine whether behavioral economic constructs-including impulsivity (i.e., steep discounting of delayed food and monetary rewards), the relative reinforcing value of food (RRVfood), and environmental enrichment (i.e., the presence of alternatives to unhealthy foods in the home and neighborhood environments)-are significant pretreatment predictors of overweight children's weight loss within family-based treatment.
methodOverweight children (N = 241; ages 7-12 years; 63% female; 65% non-Hispanic White) enrolled in a 16-week family-based obesity treatment with at least one parent. At baseline, children completed a task to assess RRVfood and delay discounting measures of snack foods and money to assess impulsivity. Parents completed questionnaires to assess environmental enrichment.
resultsChildren who found food highly reinforcing and steeply discounted future food rewards at baseline showed a blunted response to treatment compared with children without this combination of risk factors. High environmental enrichment was associated with treatment success only among children who did not find food highly reinforcing. Monetary discounting rate predicted weight loss, regardless of children's level of RRVfood.
conclusionsInvestigation is warranted into novel approaches to obesity treatment that target underlying impulsivity and RRVfood. Enriching the environment with alternatives to unhealthy eating may facilitate weight loss, especially for children with low RRVfood.
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