title: Medium is the message: moderate parental control of feeding correlates with improved weight outcome in a pediatric obesity intervention.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Previous studies have suggested complex associations among variables related to parental control of feeding and child/adolescent obesity. The current study examined associations between parental food control variables and weight outcomes in the context of a behaviorally based family treatment program.
  
  
  METHODS
  Parents of youths (n = 93) enrolled in a clinical trial comparing 2 weight management interventions completed the Child Feeding Questionnaire pre- and post-treatment, and at a 12-month follow-up.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Latent growth curve modeling indicated that mean levels of restriction decreased over the course of treatment in the Positively Fit (PF) condition. Youths in the PF treatment condition whose parents increased their restriction of food experienced greater decreases in zBMI over treatment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results echo previous reports that high and low parental control over food intake are associated with higher zBMI. Moderate parental control can be associated with beneficial outcomes in youths enrolled in behavioral treatment programs for obesity.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Child Psychology Program, University of Kansas and Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University rsteele@ku.edu.
authors.forename: Ric G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Steele
authors.affiliation: Clinical Child Psychology Program, University of Kansas and Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University.
authors.forename: Chad D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Jensen
authors.affiliation: Clinical Child Psychology Program, University of Kansas and Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University.
authors.forename: Laurie A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Gayes
authors.affiliation: Clinical Child Psychology Program, University of Kansas and Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University.
authors.forename: Hillary C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Leibold
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D004435:Eating / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents; D063766:Pediatric Obesity / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Child Feeding questionnaire; growth curve modeling; obesity; treatment