ArticlePediatric obesity2019
Child and parent reports of children's depressive symptoms in relation to children's weight loss response in family-based obesity treatment.
Article in Pediatric obesity, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Mental health outcomes of a pediatric-focused obesity randomized control trial in rural communities.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2025Trial
- General and Eating Disorder Psychopathology in Relation to Short- and Long-Term Weight Change in Treatment-Seeking Children: A Latent Profile Analysis.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2021Trial
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backgroundStudies of the association between children's depressive symptoms and obesity treatment response show mixed results. Different measurement may contribute to the inconsistent findings, as children's depressive symptoms are often based on parent-report about their child rather than child self-report.
objectivesWe assessed both child- and parent-report of child depressive symptoms as predictors of children's obesity treatment response.
methodsChildren with overweight/obesity (body mass index [BMI] ≥ 85th percentile; N = 181) and their parents reported on children's depressive symptoms prior to family-based behavioral weight loss treatment.
resultsChild percent overweight reduction from baseline to post-treatment was not predicted by child self-reported depressive symptoms or parent-report of child symptoms (P > 0.80), but was significantly predicted by the interaction between child self-report and parent-report on child (β = 0.14, P = 0.05). In analyses using clinical cutoffs, amongst children with high self-reported symptoms, those whose parents reported low child depressive symptoms had greater reduction in percent overweight (t = 2.67, P = 0.008), whereas amongst children with low self-reported symptoms, parent ratings were not associated with treatment outcome.
conclusionsIncluding both child self-report and parent-report of child depressive symptoms may inform obesity care. Research is needed to examine differences amongst child and parent depressive symptom reports and strategies to address symptoms and optimize pediatric obesity treatment.
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