title: Overview of the obesity intervention taxonomy and pooled analysis working group.
abstract: The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the National Institutes of Health Office of Disease Prevention convened a meeting on August 29-30, 2013 entitled "Obesity Intervention Taxonomy and Pooled Analysis." The overarching goals of the meeting were to understand how to decompose interventions targeting behavior change, and in particular, those that focus on obesity and to combine data from groups of related intervention studies to supplement what can be learned from the individual studies. This paper summarizes the workshop recommendations and provides an overview of the two other papers that originated from the workshop and that address decomposition of behavioral change interventions and pooling of data across diverse studies within a consortium.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. belle@edc.pitt.edu.
authors.forename: Steven H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Belle
authors.affiliation: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors.forename: June
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stevens
authors.affiliation: Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cella
authors.affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.|United States Public Health Service, Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: Jennifer L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Foltz
authors.affiliation: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Catherine M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Loria
authors.affiliation: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, USA.
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Murray
authors.affiliation: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Susan M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Czajkowski
authors.affiliation: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
authors.forename: S Sonia
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Arteaga
authors.affiliation: George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Thom
authors.affiliation: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Charlotte A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Pratt
mesh_terms: D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000145:classification*; D002487:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D054555:National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U.S.); D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014481:United States
keywords: Intervention science; Pooled analysis; Taxonomy