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A developmental cascade perspective of paediatric obesity: A systematic review of preventive interventions from infancy through late adolescence.
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- Relationship Between Fundamental Motor Skill Proficiency and the Development of Overweight and Obesity in Normally Developing Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026Pooled it
- Pediatric Obesity Prevention and Treatment Among Hispanics: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.American journal of preventive medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Associations between lifestyle interventions during pregnancy and childhood weight and growth: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2021Pooled it
- Child Obesity Prevention From Pregnancy: Long-Term Follow-Up of the Starting Early Program Trial.Pediatrics · 2025Trial
- Process and effect evaluation of the app-based parenting programFrontiers in public health · 2022Trial
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- Validation of the Observational Assessment Tool for Tailoring (OATT).Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2026Article
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- A budget impact analysis of cost to implement a whole child health focused, family-based intervention in primary care for children with elevated BMI.Implementation science communications · 2023Article
- Predicting body mass index in early childhood using data from the first 1000 days.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- 'I'm having jelly because you've been bad!': A grounded theory study of mealtimes with siblings in Australian families.Maternal & child nutrition · 2023Article
- The influence of neighborhood safety and built environment on childhood obesity: isolated and combined effect of contextual factors.Cadernos de saude publica · 2023Article
- Predicting Childhood Obesity Using Machine Learning: Practical Considerations.BioMedInformatics · 2022Article
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- The social environment and childhood obesity: Implications for research and practice in the United States and countries in Latin America.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Article
- An App-Based Parenting Program to Promote Healthy Energy Balance-Related Parenting Practices to Prevent Childhood Obesity: Protocol Using the Intervention Mapping Framework.JMIR formative research · 2021Article
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- Prevention and Management of Childhood Obesity and Its Psychological and Health Comorbidities.Annual review of clinical psychology · 2020Review
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Abstract
The goals of this systematic review were to identify and describe paediatric obesity prevention interventions from infancy to late adolescence and to provide recommendations for future intervention research in light of a recently proposed developmental cascade (DC) model of paediatric obesity. We conducted an electronic search of randomized controlled trials with a minimum 6-month postintervention follow-up published between 1995 and 2019. We included 74 interventions: prenatal/infancy (n = 4), early childhood (n = 11), childhood (n = 38), early to mid-adolescence (n = 18), and late adolescence (n = 3). Infancy and early childhood trials targeted early feeding and positive parenting skills. Half of the childhood and adolescence trials were school based and used universal prevention strategies; those classified as selective or indicated prevention tended to involve the family for more intensive lifestyle modification. Less than 10% of studies followed participants over long periods of time (greater than or equal to 5 years), and only 16% and 31% of studies assessed intervention mediators and moderators, respectively. We recommend that future interventions focus on early prevention, assess long-term intervention effects, use a standardized taxonomy for defining intervention behavioural strategies, assess underlying mechanisms of action and intervention moderators, target parent and family management strategies across development, and increase scientific equity. We also provide specific recommendations regarding intervention targets for each developmental stage.
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