Trial reportPediatric obesity2022
Impact of COVID-19 on childhood obesity: Data from a paediatric weight management trial.
Trial report in Pediatric obesity, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.
- Beyond BMI: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of mHealth Interventions for Pediatric Obesity Management.Nutrients · 2026Pooled it
- Guided Self-Help vs Group Treatment for Children With Obesity: A Randomized Clinical Trial.Pediatrics · 2025Trial
- A pediatric primary care practice-based obesity intervention to support families: a cluster-randomized clinical trial.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2024Trial
- Impact of COVID-19 on childhood obesity: Data from a paediatric weight management trial.Pediatric obesity · 2022Trial
- Video game use, lifestyle and its association with becoming overweight or obese in Mexican adolescents.PeerJ · 2026Article
- Rising socioeconomic disparities in childhood overweight and obesity in Belgium.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2024Article
- Bullying Victimization, Real and Perceived Physical Fitness, and Self-Perception Profiles in Middle-School Students with Overweight or Obesity.Nutrients · 2023Article
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Authors and funding
6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
There is growing concern that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is exacerbating childhood obesity. We sought to examine the effects of the pandemic on weight and weight-related behaviours among children with overweight and obesity participating in an ongoing cluster randomized controlled trial of a paediatric practice-based weight intervention with 2 study arms: nutritionist-delivered coaching telephone calls over 8 weeks with an accompanying workbook on lifestyle changes versus the same workbook in eight mailings without nutritionist coaching calls. In a pooled, secondary analysis of 373 children in central Massachusetts (aged 8-12 years, 29% Latinx, 55% White, 8% Black), the monthly rate of BMI increase more than doubled for those children whose 6-month study visit occurred post-pandemic onset (n = 91) compared to children whose 6-month study visit occurred pre-pandemic onset (n = 282) (0.13 kg/m
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