Lessons in Adapting a Family-Based Nutrition Program for Children With Autism.

Objective: To evaluate the adaptation and implementation of an existing, evidence-based nutrition program for children with autism and their parents.

Methods: Children aged 7-12 years with autism and their parent participated in 6 weekly sessions. Recruitment, intervention, and data collection took place in a community health center in an urban area.

Kids N Fitness Junior: Outcomes of an Evidence-Based Adapted Weight Management Program for Children Ages Three-Seven Years.

Few weight management interventions target young children with obesity from low-income minority families. To conduct a nonrandomized, pragmatic, pilot study of an adapted, evidence-based, weight management program (Kids N Fitness [KNF]) customized for children ages 3-7 years (Kids N Fitness Jr. [KNF-JR]) on changes in adiposity, nutrition, and physical activity behaviors.

Kids N Fitness: A Group-based Pediatric Weight Management Curriculum Adapted for a Clinical Care Model.

Background: The current AAP clinical practice guidelines for the management of pediatric obesity recommend a structured, comprehensive, multi-disciplinary clinical intervention. However, there is a gap in the current literature on standardized curriculums for implementation of such programs. The objective of the present study is to adapt an evidenced-based, family- centered, weekly, weight management curriculum that addresses nutritional, physical activity and behavioral topics for a clinical care model at a tertiary care children's hospital.

Energy Management for Personalized Weight Reduction (EMPOWER) Program: Three-Year Outcome Data.

Background: The current consensus guidelines for management of pediatric obesity recommend clinic-based, family-centered, multi-disciplinary interventions. It is well reported that these programs often only lead to modest improvements in BMI status. The individual factors that differentiate which patient's BMI status will improve vs.