ArticleThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2018
Sex as a Moderator of Adolescents' Weight Loss Treatment Outcomes.
Article in The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Clinically effective child change in family-based behavioral treatment for pediatric obesity: An individual participant mega-analysis.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2026Pooled it
- Sex differences in response to lifestyle intervention among children and adolescents: Systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2023Pooled it
- Parenting Training Plus Behavioral Treatment for Children With Obesity: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2025Trial
- An addiction-based digital weight loss intervention: A multi-centre randomized controlled trial.Pediatric obesity · 2023Trial
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- Evaluation of an emotion regulation and healthy lifestyle program (HealthTRAC) for adolescents with obesity: a randomized controlled trial protocol.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2026Article
- Long-term risk of late-life depression in widowed elderly: a five-year follow-up study.BMC geriatrics · 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
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Abstract
purposeWeight loss treatments targeting adolescents often occur in mixed-sex contexts and produce variable outcomes. Sex considerations may be of particular importance, especially given differences in social relating. This study aggregated data from two randomized controlled trials of a peer-enhanced intervention compared with a standard cognitive-behavioral weight loss intervention to test the hypothesis that adolescent girls may demonstrate greater benefit than boys from a peer-enhanced weight loss intervention.
methodsParticipants were 193 adolescents with overweight/obesity (age M = 14.4 years, standard deviation = .99) from two randomized clinical trials comparing a peer-enhanced intervention with an active cognitive-behavioral weight loss intervention. Adolescents' percent over body mass index (percent greater than the 50th percentile for age and sex) was measured at baseline, end of treatment, and approximately 6 months post treatment. Multilevel modeling was used to test hypotheses.
resultsFindings suggested different weight change trajectories from baseline to end of treatment, and from end of treatment to follow-up. On average, all participants demonstrated weight loss from baseline to end of treatmentm and there was evidence that adolescent boys in the peer-enhanced condition may have benefited the most. On average, weight was maintained from end of treatment to follow-up.
conclusionAdolescent males may particularly benefit from weight loss interventions that incorporate a team component to supervised physical activity.
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