FOLLOW-UP OF BEHAVIORAL CHILDHOOD OBESITY TREATMENT

拟议的研究旨在建立一个数据库，以确定 行为治疗有效性的可靠性，并评估 各种治疗和个体差异变量对 肥胖症治疗后的五年结果和生长。 五年内的治疗效果将确定为五年 随机对照结局研究。 将检验预测变量 已经被证明会影响 儿童肥胖与生长 体重的治疗变量包括 家庭成员有针对性的减肥，行为承包，和类型 锻炼。 个体差异变量包括各种 个体和家族变量，如治疗前相对体重，年龄， 性别、治疗依从性、父母体重、社会经济地位和家庭规模。 的 身高预测将包括这些治疗和个体差异 变量，以及父母的身高。 数据库将包括基线 在五年的时间里收集了200多名儿童的结果数据， 使用标准化的行为治疗程序进行治疗。 据预测，在未来的一段时间内， 五年的观察期。 此外还 预计在最后五年， 相对重量或生长可以通过个体的组合来预测 差异和治疗成分。 在前人工作的基础上， 初始儿童体重、目标人群、父母体重、性别和依从性 将用于预测体重结果，以及儿童治疗前身高和 父母身高可以预测生长。

The proposed study is designed to develop a database to determine the reliability of the effectiveness of behavioral treatments, and to assess influence of a variety of treatment and individual difference variables on five year outcome of obesity treatment and growth after obesity treatment. Treatment effects over a five year period will be established for five randomized controlled outcome studies. Predictor variables will be tested that have been shown to influence the development and treatment of childhood obesity and growth. Treatment variables for weight include the family member targeted for weight loss, behavioral contracting, and types of exercise. Individual difference variables include a variety of individual and family variables, such as pretreatment relative weight, age, sex, compliance to treatment, parent weight, SES, and family size. The prediction of height will include these treatment and individual difference variables, as well as parent height. The database will involve baseline and outcome data collected over a five year period for over 200 children treated using standardized behavioral treatment procedures. It is predicted that significant weight change will be maintained over the five year observation period across the studies. In addition, it is predicted that a substantial amount of the variance in final five year relative weight or growth can be predicted by a combination of individual difference and treatment components. On the basis of previous work, initial child weight, person targeted, parent weight, sex and compliance will serve to predict weight outcome, and child pretreatment height and parent height will predict growth.