Trial reportEating behaviors2015
Reducing variety enhances effectiveness of family-based treatment for pediatric obesity.
Trial report in Eating behaviors, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04027426 (Families Becoming Healthy Together), which is not on this map. Cited by 15 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Families Becoming Healthy Together
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- EASO and EFAD Position Statement on Medical Nutrition Therapy for the Management of Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents.Obesity facts · 2023Pooled it
- Effect of food variety on intake of a meal: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2021Pooled it
- Altering the availability or proximity of food, alcohol, and tobacco products to change their selection and consumption.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Altering the availability or proximity of food, alcohol, and tobacco products to change their selection and consumption.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled 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
- Understanding Postpartum Mothers' Perspectives of Chrononutrition Approaches: A Qualitative Study.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2026Article
- Optimizing an extended care intervention to promote weight loss maintenance: Protocol for the OPT-X multiphase optimization strategy factorial trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2026Article
- Variety of High and Very Low-Energy Density Foods among Preschool-Aged Children and Associations with Food Intake, Diet Quality, and Weight Status.The Journal of nutrition · 2024Article
- Opinions from the experts: Experiences of adolescents with severe obesity participating in meal replacement therapy.Pediatric obesity · 2023Article
- Implementing family-based behavioral treatment in the pediatric primary care setting: Design of the PLAN study.Contemporary clinical trials · 2021Article
- Rationale and protocol for translating basic habituation research into family-based childhood obesity treatment: Families becoming healthy together study.Contemporary clinical trials · 2020Article
- Consumer perception of food variety in the UK: an exploratory mixed-methods analysis.BMC public health · 2020Article
- High reinforcing value of food is related to slow habituation to food.Eating behaviors · 2020Article
- National Institutes of Health Update: Translating Basic Behavioral Science into New Pediatric Obesity Interventions.Pediatric clinics of North America · 2016Review
- Feasibility Study of Increasing Social Support to Enhance a Healthy Lifestyle Intervention for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness.Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research · 2016Article
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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Basic research has shown that increasing variety increases energy intake, and repeated consumption of the same food increases habituation to those foods and reduces consumption. Twenty-four families with overweight/obese 8-12 year-old children and overweight/obese parents were randomly assigned to 6months of usual family based treatment (FBT) or FBT plus reduced variety of high energy-dense foods (FBT+Variety). Intention to treat mixed model ANOVA showed between group differences in child percent overweight (FBT+Variety-15.4% vs. FBT-8.9%, p=0.017) and parent BMI (FBT+Variety-3.7kg/m(2) vs. FBT-2.3kg/m(2); p=0.017). Positive relationships were observed between child zBMI and parent BMI changes (r=0.51, p=0.018), and between reductions in food variety of high energy-dense foods and reductions in child zBMI (r=0.54, p=0.02) and parent BMI (r=0.45, p=0.08). These pilot data suggest that reducing the variety of high energy dense foods and repeating meals within the context of FBT resulted in improved child and parent weight changes at six months. This represents easy to implement changes that reduce choice and may reduce response burden on families. Reducing variety may be a complement to standard FBT that enhances weight loss. Long term studies are needed to assess maintenance of these changes.
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