Trial reportThe Journal of pediatrics2018
Preventing Childhood Obesity Through a Mindfulness-Based Parent Stress Intervention: A Randomized Pilot Study.
Trial report in The Journal of pediatrics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 36 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Preventing Childhood Obesity Through a Family-Based Mindfulness Intervention
ADAPT+: Optimizing an Intervention to Promote Healthy Behaviors in Rural, Latino Youth With Obesity and Their Parents, Using Mindfulness Strategies
Who cites it
36 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 2 to 4 years old.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of mindfulness-based interventions on obesogenic eating behaviors: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Pooled it
- Mindfulness-enhanced parenting programmes for improving the psychosocial outcomes of children (0 to 18 years) and their parents.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Living With Physical Health Conditions: A Systematic Review of Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Children, Adolescents, and Their Parents.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2023Pooled 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
- Effects of a Pediatric Weight Management Intervention on Parental Stress.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2022Trial
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- Mindfulness Intervention for Parent Stress and Childhood Obesity Risk: A Randomized Trial.Pediatrics · 2026Article
- Family Ties and Health: Exploring the Link Between Parents' Social Networks and Child Obesity.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2025Observational
- Centering Diverse Communities within Mindful Parenting Interventions in the U.S.: A Narrative Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Review
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- Parental Reflective Capacities: A Scoping Review of Mindful Parenting and Parental Reflective Functioning.Mindfulness · 2024Article
- The Impact of Parental Involvement in the Prevention and Management of Obesity in Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Training Promotoras to Implement a Mindfulness-Based Healthy Lifestyle Program in Rural Communities.Journal of nutrition education and behavior · 2024Article
- Parent Stress and Observed Parenting in a Parent-Child Interaction Task in a Predominantly Minority and Low-Income Sample.Archives of pediatrics (Lisle, IL) · 2024Article
- Parent Stress and Trauma, Autonomic Responses, and Negative Child Behaviors.Child psychiatry and human development · 2023Article
- Delivering ADAPT+ to Latino Families Living in Rural Communities: Feasibility and Acceptability of Implementing a Health Promotion Program Including Mindfulness.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2023Article
- A cluster randomized trial of a comprehensive intervention nesting family and clinic into school centered implementation to reduce myopia and obesity among children and adolescents in Beijing, China: study protocol.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Control and Chaos: Caregiver's Basic Psychological Need Frustration is Associated With the Socioemotional Climate When Feeding.Journal of nutrition education and behavior · 2023Article
- Association between specific types of parent stressors and fast-food consumption among parents and children.Eating behaviors · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess the feasibility of engaging stressed, low-income parents with obesity in a novel mindfulness-based parent stress intervention aimed at decreasing the risk of early childhood obesity. STUDY
designAn 8-week mindfulness-based parent stress group intervention (parenting mindfully for health) plus nutrition and physical activity counseling (PMH+N) was developed for parents with obesity aimed at preventing obesity in their at-risk 2- to 5-year-old children. PMH+N was compared with a control group intervention (C+N), and improvement in parenting was assessed before and after the intervention using the laboratory-based toy wait task (TWT). In addition, nutrition, physical activity, and stress were assessed using a multimethod approach.
resultsAfter establishing feasibility in 20 parent-child dyads (phase 1), 42 dyads were randomized to PMH+N vs C+N (phase 2). Compared with the C+N group, the PMH+N group demonstrated significantly better group attendance (P < .015), greater improvement in parental involvement (P < .05), and decreased parental emotional eating rating (P < .011). Furthermore, C+N, but not PMH+N, was associated with significant increases in child body mass index percentile during treatment (P < .03) when accounting for the TWT before and after changes in parenting scores.
conclusionsThese findings suggest that a mindfulness-based parent stress intervention to decrease childhood obesity risk is feasible, requires further testing of therapeutic mechanisms in larger samples, and may be a potential way to attenuate the risk of childhood obesity.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.govNCT01974102.
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