ArticleObesity science & practice2022
A child-centered health dialogue for the prevention of obesity in child health services in Sweden - A randomized controlled trial including an economic evaluation.
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- Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 2 to 4 years old.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Effect of obesity treatment interventions in preschool children aged 2-6 years: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ open · 2022Pooled it
- 'Saga Stories in health talks' for health promotion in Swedish child healthcare: results from a cluster-randomised hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation study.BMC public health · 2025Trial
- Effectiveness of a Smartphone App (MINISTOP 2.0) integrated in primary child health care to promote healthy diet and physical activity behaviors and prevent obesity in preschool-aged children: randomized controlled trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Trial
- Changes in perceived parental self-efficacy after a Child-Centred Health Dialogue about preventing obesity.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2022Trial
- MindTS-Net: A multimodal mindfulness-based intervention framework for children with Tourette syndrome.iScience · 2026Article
- MINISTOP 3.0: Implementation of a mHealth obesity prevention program within Swedish child healthcare - study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Long-Term Effects of a Primary Weight Gain Prevention Intervention among Healthy Weight Obesity Susceptible Children: Results from the Healthy Start Study.Obesity facts · 2024Article
- Parents' recalled experiences of the child centred health dialogue in children with overweight: a qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Study protocol for an effectiveness-implementation hybrid trial to evaluate a health promotion intervention in parents and their 5-year-old child: Saga Stories in health talks in Swedish child healthcare.BMC public health · 2022Article
- A child-centered health dialogue for the prevention of obesity in child health services in Sweden - A randomized controlled trial including an economic evaluation.Obesity science & practice · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundPrevention of child obesity is an international public health priority and believed to be effective when started in early childhood. Caregivers often ask for an early and structured response from health professionals when their child is identified with overweight, yet cost-effective interventions for children aged 2-6 years and their caregivers in Child Health Services are lacking.
objectivesTo evaluate the effects and cost-effectiveness of a child-centered health dialogue in the Child Health Services in Sweden on 4-year-old children with normal weight and overweight.
methodsThirty-seven Child Health Centers were randomly assigned to deliver intervention or usual care. The primary outcome was zBMI-change.
resultsA total of 4598 children with normal weight (zBMI: 0.1 [SD = 0.6] and 490 children with overweight (zBMI: 1.6 [SD = 0.3]) (mean age: 4.1 years [SD = 0.1]; 49% females) were included. At follow-up, at a mean age of 5.1 years [SD = 0.1], there was no intervention effect on zBMI-change for children with normal weight. Children with overweight in the control group increased zBMI by 0.01 ± 0.50, while children in the intervention group decreased zBMI by 0.08 ± 0.52. The intervention effect on zBMI-change for children with overweight was -0.11, with a 95% confidence interval of -0.24 to 0.01 (
conclusionsThis low-intensive multicomponent child-centered intervention for the primary prevention of child obesity did not show statistical significant effects on zBMI, but is suggested to be cost-effective with the potential to be implemented universally in the Child Health Services. Future studies should investigate the impact of socio-economic factors in universally implemented obesity prevention programs.
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