Trial reportHealth and quality of life outcomes2020
The impacts of multiple obesity-related interventions on quality of life in children and adolescents: a randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in Health and quality of life outcomes, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02343588 (Development and Application of Appropriate Technology for Obesity Prevention and Control in Seven Centers in China), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Development and Application of Appropriate Technology for Obesity Prevention and Control in Seven Centers in China
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 34 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Effectiveness of School-Based Physical Activity Promotion on Mental Health Among Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2025Pooled it
- Physical activity based interventions for reducing body mass index in children aged 6-12 years: a systematic review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Pooled it
- Health-promotion interventions targeting multiple behaviors: A meta-analytic review of general and behavior-specific processes of change.Psychological bulletin · 2024Pooled it
- Family sports interventions for the treatment of obesity in childhood: a meta-analysis.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Trial
- A Cost-Utility Analysis of Two-Stage Screening Strategies Based on Waist-to-Height Ratio for Pediatric Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) in China.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Impact of Enhanced Family Education on BMI Changes in Children and Adolescents With Overweight or Obesity: Study Protocol for a City-Wide Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Long-term changes in psychosocial well-being in children with obesity deciding not to participate in a lifestyle intervention.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2026Observational
- Video game use, lifestyle and its association with becoming overweight or obese in Mexican adolescents.PeerJ · 2026Article
- Digital components and interaction types in counseling interventions for childhood and adolescent obesity: A systematic review.International journal of nursing sciences · 2025Review
- Efficacy of a Brief Intervention to Improve the Levels of Nutrition and Physical Exercise Knowledge Among Primary School Learners in Tshwane, South Africa: A Quasi-Experimental Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Associations of sleep time, quality of life, and obesity indicators on physical literacy components: a structural equation model.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
- Article
- The impact of ultra-processed foods and unprocessed or minimally processed foods on the quality of life among adolescents: a longitudinal study from China.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Protocol Study: Resistance Training Program, Nutritional, Sleep, and Screen Use Recommendations in Schoolchildren from Educational Centers in the Extreme South of Chile.Methods and protocols · 2023Article
- Influence of Executive Function Training on BMI, Food Choice, and Cognition in Children with Obesity: Results from the TOuCH Study.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Individualized Implementation of Youth Quality of Life Instrument-Research Version (YQOL-R) Among Chinese Adolescents with Different Weight Status.Patient preference and adherence · 2023Article
- Optimal BMI cutoff points in obesity screening for Chinese college students.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Outcome of structured health education intervention for obesity-risk reduction among junior high school students: Stratified cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) in South India.Journal of education and health promotion · 2022Article
- Accelerometer-derived movement phenotypes and adolescent mental health in pediatric obesity: A causal machine-learning study.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
background and purposeObesity has become a serious public health problem and family- and school-based interventions including physical exercise and diet control have been widely applied to attempt to combat this issue. The purpose of our study was to verify the effectiveness of an obesity-related comprehensive intervention model aimed at improving quality of life (QoL) among adolescents.
methodsA cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) was conducted involving 948 subjects who were divided into an intervention group (n = 518) and a control group (n = 430). The intervention group received 1 year of obesity-related health education, physical exercise, and diet control. Their baseline body mass index (BMI) was calculated, and their QoL and basic information were assessed both before and after the intervention period using a self-designed Adolescent Quality of Life Scale and a basic information questionnaire.
resultsAfter the intervention, significant differences in the psychological, social, and pubertal dimensions, and in total QoL (P < 0.05) were observed in the intervention group relative to the control group. Improved psychological QoL in the intervention group was our most robust study finding, with increases in psychological (B = 1.883, SE = 0.646, P = 0.004), pubertal (B = 0.853, SE = 0.296, P = 0.004) and total (B = 3.024, SE = 1.214, P = 0.013) QoL all being higher in this group. This intervention effect was found to be more substantial in boys than in girls.
conclusionsFamily-individual-school-based interventions combining obesity-related health education, physical exercise, and diet control can improve psychological, pubertal, and total QoL in children, with these effects being most pronounced in boys.
trial registrationretrospectively registered NCT02343588 .
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.