Trial reportJournal of obesity2016
A Pilot Study of Parent Mentors for Early Childhood Obesity.
Trial report in Journal of obesity, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Enablers of successful dissemination of uncommon practices in positive deviance studies for nutrition: A scoping review.BMC nutrition · 2026Pooled it
- Childhood obesity interventions among Latinos residing in the US-Mexico border: a systematic review and meta-analysis of obesity outcomes.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2026Pooled it
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- Family-Centered Interventions for Treatment and Prevention of Childhood Obesity in Hispanic Families: A Systematic Review.Journal of community health · 2021Pooled it
- Childhood Obesity Evidence Base Project: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of a New Taxonomy of Intervention Components to Improve Weight Status in Children 2-5 Years of Age, 2005-2019.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2020Pooled it
- Layperson-Led vs Professional-Led Behavioral Interventions for Weight Loss in Pediatric Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA network open · 2020Pooled it
- Capacity-oriented approaches to developing childhood obesity interventions: a systematic review.Clinical obesity · 2018Pooled it
- Community Health Workers in Schools: A Systematic Review.Academic pediatricsPooled it
- Parents in peer delivery of family-based behavioral pediatric weight management: the SHIFT randomized noninferiority trial.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2025Trial
- Clinic and Home-Based Behavioral Intervention for Obesity in Preschoolers: A Randomized Trial.The Journal of pediatrics · 2018Trial
- Leveraging the Positive Deviance Approach to Drive Behavior Change in Noncommunicable Diseases: A Scoping Review.Public health challenges · 2026Review
- Positive deviance in health and medical research on individual level outcomes - a review of methodology.Annals of epidemiology · 2022Review
- Implementation Monitoring of a Promotora-Led, Home-Based Obesity Prevention Pilot Study With Latino Preschool Children and Their Mothers.International quarterly of community health education · 2021Article
- A positive deviance-based qualitative study of stress, coping, and feeding practices among low-income, Hispanic mothers whose children do versus do not meet guidelines for fruit and vegetable intake.Health education research · 2020Article
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- Factors Associated with Successful Mentoring of Parents Addressing Childhood Obesity: A Mixed Methods Approach.International journal of pediatrics · 2016Article
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Abstract
Objective. To assess the feasibility of a parent mentor model of intervention for early childhood obesity using positive deviance-based methods to inform the intervention. Methods. In this pilot, randomized clinical trial, parent-child dyads (age: 2-5) with children whose body mass index (BMI) was ≥95th percentile were randomized to parent mentor intervention or community health worker comparison. The child's height and weight were measured at baseline, after the six-month intervention, and six months after the intervention. Feasibility outcomes were recruitment, participation, and retention. The primary clinical outcome was BMI z-score change. Results. Sixty participants were enrolled, and forty-eight completed the six-month intervention. At baseline, the BMI z-score in the parent mentor group was 2.63 (SD = 0.65) and in the community health worker group it was 2.61 (SD = 0.89). For change in BMI z-score over time, there was no difference by randomization group at the end of the intervention: -0.02 (95% CI: -0.26, 0.22). At the end of the intervention, the BMI z-score for the parent mentor group was 2.48 (SD = 0.58) and for the community health worker group it was 2.45 (SD = 0.91), both reduced from baseline, p < 0.001. Conclusion. The model of a parent mentor clinical trial is feasible, and both randomized groups experienced small, sustained effects on adiposity in an obese, Hispanic population.
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