title: Establishment of the Pediatric Obesity Weight Evaluation Registry: A National Research Collaborative for Identifying the Optimal Assessment and Treatment of Pediatric Obesity.
abstract: Prospective patient registries have been successfully utilized in several disease states with a goal of improving treatment approaches through multi-institutional collaboration. The prevalence of youth with severe obesity is at a historic high in the United States, yet evidence to guide effective weight management is limited. The Pediatric Obesity Weight Evaluation Registry (POWER) was established in 2013 to identify and promote effective intervention strategies for pediatric obesity.
  
  
  
  Sites in POWER provide multicomponent pediatric weight management (PWM) care for youth with obesity and collect a defined set of demographic and clinical parameters, which they regularly submit to the POWER Data Coordinating Center. A program profile survey was completed by sites to describe characteristics of the respective PWM programs.
  
  
  
  From January 2014 through December 2015, 26 US sites were enrolled in POWER and had submitted data on 3643 youth with obesity. Ninety-five percent were 6-18 years of age, 54% female, 32% nonwhite, 32% Hispanic, and 59% publicly insured. Over two-thirds had severe obesity. All sites included a medical provider and used weight status in their referral criteria. Other program characteristics varied widely between sites.
  
  
  
  POWER is an established national registry representing a diverse sample of youth with obesity participating in multicomponent PWM programs across the United States. Using high-quality data collection and a collaborative research infrastructure, POWER aims to contribute to the development of evidence-based guidelines for multicomponent PWM programs.
authors.affiliation: 1 Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center , Cincinnati, OH.
authors.forename: Shelley
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kirk
authors.affiliation: 2 Duke Children's Hospital Medical Center , Durham, NC.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Armstrong
authors.affiliation: 1 Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center , Cincinnati, OH.
authors.forename: Eileen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: King
authors.affiliation: 3 Connecticut Children's Medical Center , Hartford, CT.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Trapp
authors.affiliation: 4 Seattle Children's Hospital , Seattle, WA.
authors.forename: Mollie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Grow
authors.affiliation: 5 Helen DeVos Children's Hospital/Michigan State University , Grand Rapids, MI.
authors.forename: Jared
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tucker
authors.affiliation: 6 UF Health Pediatric Weight Management Center at Wolfson Children Hospital , Jacksonville, FL.
authors.forename: Madeline
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Joseph
authors.affiliation: 4 Seattle Children's Hospital , Seattle, WA.
authors.forename: Lenna
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: 7 University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center , Oklahoma City, OK.
authors.forename: Ashley
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Weedn
authors.affiliation: 8 Children's Mercy Hospital , Kansas City, MO.
authors.forename: Brooke
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sweeney
authors.affiliation: 9 University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital , Minneapolis, MN.
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fox
authors.affiliation: 10 Eastern Maine Medical Center , Bangor, ME.
authors.forename: Samreen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fathima
authors.affiliation: 11 Penn State Children's Hospital , Hershey, PA.
authors.forename: Ronald
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.affiliation: 12 Children's Medical Center-UT Southwestern Medical Center , Dallas, TX.
authors.forename: Roy
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: 5 Helen DeVos Children's Hospital/Michigan State University , Grand Rapids, MI.
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Stratbucker
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D063766:Pediatric Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D010809:Physical Fitness; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012042:Registries; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology
keywords: pediatric obesity; registry; weight management