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Associations between changes in caregiver’s and child’s weight status in a community-based obesity intervention programme

We examined whether caregivers of children/adolescents enroled in a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of a family-centred intervention indirectly achieved reductions in body mass index (BMI), and if these were associated with changes in their children’s BMI.

Citation:
Hadley TS, Cave TL, Derraik JGB, Hofman PL, Anderson YC. Associations between changes in caregiver’s and child’s weight status in a community-based obesity intervention programme. Int J Obes. 2022:1-4.

Abstract:
We examined whether caregivers of children/adolescents enroled in a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of a family-centred intervention indirectly achieved reductions in body mass index (BMI), and if these were associated with changes in their children’s BMI.