Trial reportInternational journal of obesity (2005)2018
Unsupportive parenting moderates the effects of family psychosocial intervention on metabolic syndrome in African American youth.
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- Interventions for preventing obesity in children.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Early Life Adversity, Microbiome, and Inflammatory Responses.Biomolecules · 2024Review
- Allostatic load in children: The cost of empathic concern.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- History of childhood physical abuse is associated with gut microbiota diversity among adult psychiatric inpatients.Journal of affective disorders · 2023Article
- Transgenerational Inheritance and Systemic Racism in America.Psychiatric research and clinical practice · 2023Review
- Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Cardiometabolic Health: A Test of the John Henryism Hypothesis in African American Older Adults.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2022Article
- Timing, duration, and differential susceptibility to early life adversities and cardiovascular disease risk across the lifespan: Implications for future research.Preventive medicine · 2021Review
- Risky family climates presage increased cellular aging in young adulthood.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2021Article
- Early Life Adversity and Pubertal Timing: Implications for Cardiometabolic Health.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2021Article
- Targeting Parenting Quality to Reduce Early Life Adversity Impacts on Lifespan Cardiometabolic Risk.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Families Improving Together (FIT) for weight loss: a resource for translation of a positive climate-based intervention into community settings.Translational behavioral medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
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objectiveFamily relationships have been linked to obesity and related disorders in youth, but few studies have provided causal evidence of this association. This study tested the impact of a family psychosocial intervention on components of metabolic syndrome-a condition driven largely by abdominal obesity-in African American youth. In particular, the study tested whether effects were strongest among those who started at highest risk, that is, with high levels of unsupportive parenting at baseline. SUBJECTS/
methodsRandomized clinical trial of a community sample of 391 African American youth (mean age=11.2 years) conducted in 2001-2002, with follow-up metabolic syndrome assessment in 2014-2015. Participants were assigned either to receive a weekly family intervention or to a control group. The primary study outcome was the number of components of metabolic syndrome that were clinically elevated at age 25, including central adiposity, blood pressure, triglycerides, glucose and low high-density lipoproteins. Unsupportive parenting was measured by questionnaires at baseline.
resultsSignificant interaction effects were found between group assignment and baseline unsupportive parenting on counts of metabolic syndrome components in youth (beta=-0.17, P=0.03). Among those who started with higher levels of unsupportive parenting at age 11, participation in the family intervention reduced the number of clinically elevated components of the metabolic syndrome at age 25 relative to the control group. No such effect was seen among those who started with good parenting. Mediation analyses suggested that changes in the psychosocial targets of the parenting intervention partially accounted for the effects amongst those high in unsupportive parenting at baseline (effect size=-0.350, s.e.=0.178).
conclusionsThese findings suggest that efforts to improve family relationships may be able to ameliorate the detrimental effects that harsh and unsupportive parenting have on obesity-related outcomes such as metabolic syndrome in youth.
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