Trial reportInternational journal of obesity (2005)2013
Effects of providing personalized feedback of child's obesity risk on mothers' food choices using a virtual reality buffet.
Trial report in International journal of obesity (2005), 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 39 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cybersickness Variability by Race: Findings From 6 Studies and a Mini Meta-analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Pooled it
- Effects of Fruit and Vegetable Feeding Messages on Mothers and Fathers: Interactions Between Emotional State and Health Message Framing.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2019Trial
- Modeling Dynamic Food Choice Processes to Understand Dietary Intervention Effects.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2018Trial
- Let's Move Together.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2017Trial
- Mothers' guilt responses to children's obesity risk feedback.Journal of health psychology · 2015Trial
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- Evaluating the Viability of Virtual Reality for Children's Food Choice Research: Comparative Mixed Methods Study.JMIR human factors · 2026Article
- Polygenic Childhood Obesity: Integrating Genetics and Environment for Early Intervention.Hormone research in paediatrics · 2026Review
- How shared versus unshared parental contribution to child risk influences guilt responses.Journal of health psychology · 2024Article
- Developing and assessing a kin keeping scale with application to identifying central influencers in African American family networks.Journal of community genetics · 2023Article
- Understanding the Process of Family Cancer History Collection and Health Information Seeking.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2023Article
- Food Desires and Hedonic Discrimination in Virtual Reality Varying in Product-Context Appropriateness among Older Consumers.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- How beliefs about weight malleability and risk perceptions for obesity influence parents' information seeking and feeding.Journal of health psychology · 2022Article
- Parental reward-based eating drive predicts parents' feeding behaviors and Children's ultra-processed food intake.Appetite · 2021Article
- Investigating the Efficacy of Genetic, Environmental, and Multifactorial Risk Information When Communicating Obesity Risk to Parents of Young Children.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2021Article
- Parents' genetic attributions for children's eating behaviors: Relationships with beliefs, emotions, and food choice behavior.Appetite · 2020Article
- Association of parental guilt with harmful versus healthful eating and feeding from a virtual reality buffet.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2020Article
- Mothers' and fathers' cognitive and affective responses to epigenetics concepts.Environmental epigenetics · 2019Article
- Parental Defensiveness about Multifactorial Genomic and Environmental Causes of Children's Obesity Risk.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2019Article
- A Bayesian hierarchical logistic regression model of multiple informant family health histories.BMC medical research methodology · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundProviding personalized genetic-risk feedback of a child's susceptibility to adult-onset health conditions is a topic of considerable debate. Family health history (FHH), specifically parental overweight/obesity status, is a useful assessment for evaluating a child's genetic and environmental risk of becoming obese. It is unclear whether such risk information may influence parents' efforts to reduce their child's risk of obesity. PURPOSE: To evaluate whether telling mothers the magnitude of their child's risk of becoming obese based on personal FHH influenced food choices for their young child from a virtual reality-based buffet restaurant.
methodsOverweight/obese mothers of a child aged 4-5 years who met eligibility criteria (N=221) were randomly assigned to one of three experimental arms, which emphasized different health information: arm 1, food safety control (Control); arm 2, behavioral-risk information (BRI) alone or arm 3, behavioral-risk information plus personal FHH-based risk assessment (BRI+FHH). Mothers donned a head-mounted display to be immersed in a virtual restaurant buffet, where they selected virtual food and beverages as a lunch for their child.
resultsMothers who were randomized to BRI+FHH filled the index child's plate with an average of 45 fewer calories than those in the Control arm (P<0.05); those in the BRI arm filled the plate with 35 fewer calories than the Control arm, a non-significant difference. Calorie restriction was greatest among mothers in the BRI+FHH arm who received the weaker-risk message (that is, only one overweight parent).
conclusionsThe influence of communicating a child's inherited risk of obesity on mothers' feeding practices may vary by the risk level conveyed. High-risk messages may best be coupled with strategies to increase mother's perceptions that efforts can be undertaken to reduce risk and build requisite behavioral skills to reduce risk.
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