title: Short-Term Efficacy and Correlates of Change in Health Weight Management Program for Chinese American Children.
abstract: A pretest and posttest study design was used to test a healthy weight management intervention with overweight and/or obese Chinese American children. Children attended 8-weekly small group sessions while parents attended a single 2-hour parent workshop. Children had their weight, height, blood pressure, waist and hip circumference, and fast lipids data assessed and completed several questions questionnaires regarding food choices, self-efficacy, and knowledge at baseline, 2 months, and 6 months. Parents completed questionnaires regarding demographic, acculturation level and family environment. We found significant reduction of body mass index, waist/hip ratio, systolic blood pressure and improvement of child's eating style, physical activity knowledge, self-efficacy, and children's quality of life at 6-month follow-up. In addition, significant improvement of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and decrease in triglyceride were found at 6-month follow-up. Improvement of nutrition self-efficacy and decreased stimulus environment were associated with decreased body mass index in overweight and obese Chinese American children.
authors.affiliation: University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA jyu-lin.chen@ucsf.edu.
authors.forename: Jyu-Lin
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: North East Medical Services, San Francisco, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kwan
mesh_terms: D001213:Asian; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D063766:Pediatric Obesity / Q000628:therapy*; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods*; D011788:Quality of Life; D020377:Self Efficacy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D061217:Weight Reduction Programs / Q000379:methods*
keywords: body mass index; childhood obesity; family stimulus environment; healthy weight; nutrition self-efficacy