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Vlaev, Ivo, Taylor, Michael J, Taylor, David, Gately, Paul, Gunn, Laura H, Abeles, Aliza, Kerkadi, Abdelhamid, Lothian, Jackie, Jreige, Sahar Karim, Alsaadi, Aziza, Al-Kuwari, Mohamed G, Ghuloum, Suhaila, Al-Kuwari, Hanan, Darzi, Ara and Ahmedna, Mohamed (2021) Testing a multicomponent lifestyle intervention for combatting childhood obesity. BMC Public Health, 21 (1). 824. doi:10.1186/s12889-021-10838-1
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10838-1
Abstract
Childhood obesity is a major global health concern. Weight-management camps involving delivery of a program of physical activity, health education, and healthy eating are an effective treatment, although post-intervention weight-management is less well understood. Our objective was to assess the effectiveness of a weight-management camp followed by a community intervention in supporting weight-management for overweight children and children with obesity. Participants were overweight Qatari schoolchildren or schoolchildren with obesity, ages 8-14 years, (n = 300) recruited over a three-year period across 14 randomly selected schools in the Doha area. They attended a two-week weight management camp, then a 10-week program of weekly lifestyle education and physical activity sessions, which also included behavior change techniques. The programme was cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)-focused with a strong element of behavioural economics blended in. Participants saw a significant BMI SDS reduction as a result of the entire intervention (camp + education and activity sessions) both at the individual (p < 0.0001) and cluster/school (p = 0.0002) levels, and weight loss occurred during each intervention stage separately for the camp (p < 0.0001 for both the individual and cluster/school levels) and the lifestyle education and activity phase (p < 0.0001 and p = 0.0220 at the individual and cluster/school levels, respectively). Weekly lifestyle education and activity sessions which include behavior change techniques may be useful in promoting continued weight management in the period following intensive, immersive childhood obesity interventions.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | BMC Public Health | ||||||
| Publisher: | BioMed Central Ltd. | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1471-2458 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 29 April 2021 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 21 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| Article Number: | 824 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1186/s12889-021-10838-1 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access |
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