Trial reportBehavioral medicine (Washington, D.C.)2015
Park Density Impacts Weight Change in a Behavioral Intervention for Overweight Rural Youth.
Trial report in Behavioral medicine (Washington, D.C.), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Neighborhood Environments and Changes in Obesity and in Lifestyle Behaviors Among Children Enrolled in Obesity Management Interventions: A Systematic Review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026Pooled it
- The built environment as determinant of childhood obesity: A systematic literature review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2022Pooled it
- The impacts of unstructured nature play on health in early childhood development: A systematic review.PloS one · 2020Pooled it
- Interventions for preventing obesity in children.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Home and neighbourhood built environment features in family-based treatment for childhood obesity.Pediatric obesity · 2019Trial
- A Community Resource Map to Support Clinical-Community Linkages in a Randomized Controlled Trial of Childhood Obesity, Eastern Massachusetts, 2014-2016.Preventing chronic disease · 2017Trial
- Global trends in research on eating behaviors among overweight/obese children and adolescents: a bibliometric study from 2003 to 2023.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Evidence Base Update on Behavioral Treatments for Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53 · 2023Review
- Park Area and Physical Activity Among Children and Adolescents: Findings From the Healthy Communities Study.Journal of physical activity & health · 2023Article
- Attained body mass index among children attending rural outdoor or urban conventional kindergartens.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Residential Proximity to Urban Play Spaces and Childhood Overweight and Obesity in Barcelona, Spain: A Population-Based Longitudinal Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Caregiver Perceptions of Environmental Facilitators and Barriers to Healthy Eating and Active Living during the Summer: Results from the Project SWEAT Sub-Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Association of Food Access, Recreational Opportunities, and Natural Amenities with Engagement in the Veterans MOVE! Weight Management Program.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2020Article
- Multilevel Correlates of Healthy BMI Maintenance and Return to a Healthy BMI among Children in Massachusetts.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2017Article
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Abstract
Currently, over 30% of youth are overweight or obese. Limited access to parks and recreational facilities is related to physical inactivity and obesity. Environmental factors may also impact the effectiveness of pediatric weight management interventions. Most research concerning the built environment and child weight status has been conducted in urban settings, despite rural children being disproportionately overweight and obese compared to their urban peers. The current study examined the relationship between park density and weight change among 93 overweight rural youth (ages 8-14) participating in a randomized controlled trial examining the effectiveness of a behavioral family weight management intervention. Results revealed that increased park density was associated with decreases in BMI z-score over time for youth in the behavioral family weight management intervention, but not those in the wait-list control group. In rural communities it is important to consider the environmental context when designing prevention and treatment programs addressing childhood obesity.
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