Essay on Obesity in Children and new Interventions

Essay on Obesity in Children and new Interventions
Essay on Obesity in Children and new Interventions
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1Essay on Obesity in Children and new Interventions
Overview of the paper
The issue addressed in the paper was to evaluate the effectiveness of the parenting skill
training given to the parents who has kids with the problem of obesity. The strategies formulated
for the treatment of the overweight children. The paper has been developed by Rebecca K.
Golley, Anthea , Louise, Katharine and Lynne. They all are Nutrients and diet specialist with
PHD and MBBS as the degree in the same field. It’s a study about how to manage the family
with overweight history by giving proper parenting program classes and intensive lifestyle
training so that the parents can help control the weight of their children (Lavie, Schutter, &
Milani, 2015). The results shall be compared with the 3 different groups over a period of 12
months time. The BMI and waist circumference are the measuring criteria in the study. The
groups are:
1. Children who wait listed for 12 months intervention.
2. Children whose parents took the training. Inclusive of both the groups.
The study is an important novel as that will be helping so many effected children to control
their diet for a healthy living. The study was to connect the relation between not only parenting
training but also about healthy lifestyle factors. This study would change the dietary curriculum
across the globe and would increase the chances of benefiting from the training.
The intervention
The intervention was to introduce a parenting skill training to help parents to change their
lifestyle for the successful weight control result. The parents were encouraged to participate in
the positive parenting programs. A triple P marking was developed for the social learning and
child development theory to train and promote the parents to control the behavior of the children.
The program was of 2 hours of group session in one month and progressing to 15 minutes
telephonic session in next 3 months. There were 3 groups formed for examining the intervention.
The one with lifestyle training P+DA, second with no extra lifestyle training P, and the third
group was wait listed for 1 year WLC. The program was based on training resource material
consisting of the dietary and activity based examples. There were two interventions the one with
the lifestyle training and the other without any life style training (Bray, Kim, Wilding, & World
Obesity Federation, 2017).

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The Outcome
The outcome was positive as the parents in the P +DA group followed the schedule. The
result showed a major change in the waist measurement of boys who participated in the study. It
was seen that parents in the full fledged program took 7 extra sessions on intensive life style
training. The parents in the P+DA arm completed the all the program in the 4 weekly session
only. The outcome was compared among each of the group and also with WLC who waited for
12 months before inetervesion.
The study design
There were two Child weight Management interventions namely the P+DA and P. The
P+DA were parenting skill training with intensive life style education. And the P group was only
about parenting skill and no life style education. The groups were compared to each other and
also with the 12 months controlled wait listed group WLC. The study was conducted at two
metropolitan teaching hospitals at Adelaide, Australia. The study was approved by two bodies
the Flinders research ethics and the Woman and children hospital for ethics communities. Study
was conducted according to the consolidated standard of reporting trail statement. Recruitment
of the sample was randomly computer generated 3 block design. Selection was random based on
the gender and the location for the study conducted (Witten, 2016).. The researcher who was the
part of this study was not involved in the randomization process. DR Golley conducted all the
interventions. She also developed the life style education component and got trained for the
accredited parenting component. Children were not suppose to attend the intervention it was the
“parents only” mode study where the parents has to implement the life style education in the
family.
Study population
The families that participated in 2002-2003 study gathered through media and school
news letter advertisements. Age considered for the study was between 6 and 9 years and the
criteria for the selection was “overweight”. The weight qualification was based on the
international obesity task force definition, if the child passed those test then they were included
in the study. The child with BMI z score criteria more than 3.5, suffering from the syndrome
cause of obesity, under medication implications, or any disability were excluded from the study.