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Promoting healthful family meals to prevent obesity: HOME Plus, a randomized controlled trial

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, December 2015
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Title
Promoting healthful family meals to prevent obesity: HOME Plus, a randomized controlled trial
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International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, December 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12966-015-0320-3
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Jayne A. Fulkerson, Sarah Friend, Colleen Flattum, Melissa Horning, Michelle Draxten, Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, Olga Gurvich, Mary Story, Ann Garwick, Martha Y. Kubik

Abstract

Family meal frequency has been shown to be strongly associated with better dietary intake; however, associations with weight status have been mixed. Family meals-focused randomized controlled trials with weight outcomes have not been previously conducted. Therefore, this study purpose was to describe weight-related outcomes of the HOME Plus study, the first family meals-focused randomized controlled trial to prevent excess weight gain among youth. Families (n = 160 8-12-year-old children and their parents/guardians) were randomized to intervention (n = 81) or control (n = 79) groups. Data were collected at baseline (2011-2012), post-intervention (12-months post-baseline) and follow-up (21-months post-baseline). The intervention included ten monthly group sessions (nutrition education; hands-on meal and snack planning, preparation, and skill development; screen time reductions) and five motivational, goal-setting phone calls. The main outcome was child body mass index (BMI) z-score. General linear models, adjusted for baseline values and demographics, showed no significant treatment group differences in BMI z-scores at post-intervention or follow-up; however, a promising reduction in excess weight gain was observed. Post-hoc stratification by pubertal onset indicated prepubescent children in the intervention group had significantly lower BMI z-scores than their control group counterparts. The study used a strong theoretical framework, rigorous design, quality measurement and a program with high fidelity to test a family meals-focused obesity prevention intervention. It showed a modest decrease in excess weight gain. The significant intervention effect among prepubescent children suggests the intervention may be more efficacious among relatively young children, although more research with appropriately powered samples are needed to replicate this finding. This study is registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov NCT01538615. Registered 01/17/2012.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 304 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 51 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 38 12%
Student > Bachelor 38 12%
Researcher 29 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 23 8%
Other 46 15%
Unknown 81 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 65 21%
Medicine and Dentistry 43 14%
Psychology 25 8%
Social Sciences 21 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 4%
Other 38 12%
Unknown 101 33%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 April 2021.
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#35,037
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Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
#31
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