Effectiveness of mobile health interventions targeting parents to prevent and treat childhood Obesity: Systematic review.

Childhood obesity is a high prevalence condition that causes a high burden of disease in adulthood. Mobile phone app are increasingly used to prevent it. We summarized the evidence on the effectiveness of mobile apps for devices used by parents to prevent and treat childhood and adolescent obesity.

Validation of the Italian version of the Tool to Measure Parenting Self-Efficacy questionnaire using data from an intervention study.

Background: Parent self-efficacy (PSE), parents' confidence in their ability to successfully raise their children, has proved to be a powerful direct predictor of specific positive parenting practices. The aim of this study was to validate the Italian version of the Tool to Measure Parenting Self-Efficacy (TOPSE) using data from the questionnaires previously completed in a controlled before-after study conducted in 2015 to evaluate a newsletter programme to help improve parenting. Mothers and fathers of newborns were asked to complete the TOPSE at the child's birth (t0), at 6 months (t1) and at 12 months (t2): 265 TOPSE questionnaires were collected at t0 (43%), 158 at t1 (26%) and 188 at t2 (31%).

Understanding the association between mother's education level and effectiveness of a child obesity prevention intervention: a secondary analysis of an RCT.

Objectives: to explain differences in effectiveness of paediatrician-led motivational interviewing (MI) in decreasing body mass index (BMI) between children of mothers with low or high education level.

Design: secondary analysis of a randomised control trial.

Setting And Participants: individually randomized controlled trial previously conducted from 2011 to 2013 in the province of Reggio Emilia (Emilia-Romagna Region, Northern Italy).

Evaluation of an intervention aimed at supporting new parents: the Baby Newsletter project.

Background: Anticipatory guidance for parents is commonly used to improve parenting skills. The objective of this pre/post-intervention controlled study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a periodic newsletter with advice on childcare and development in improving parenting self-efficacy.

Methods: This was a non-randomized pre/post-intervention controlled study.

Describing the Process and Tools Adopted to Cocreate a Smartphone App for Obesity Prevention in Childhood: Mixed Method Study.

Background: Childhood obesity prevention is a public health priority in industrialized countries. The Reggio Emilia Local Health Authority has implemented a program involving primary and secondary prevention as well as the care of obese children. There are many health-promoting mobile apps, but few are targeted to children and very few are sponsored by public health agencies.

Systematic review of maternal voice interventions demonstrates increased stability in preterm infants.

Unlabelled: We systematically reviewed how effectively maternal voice interventions supported the clinical outcomes and development of preterm infants. A total of 512 preterm infants were included in 15 studies with different designs, from January 2000 to July 2015. Live and recorded maternal voice interventions were associated with the physiologic and behavioural stabilisation of preterm infants, with fewer cardiorespiratory events, but the evidence was insufficient to evaluate the long-term effects.

Motivational Interviewing to Treat Overweight Children: 24-Month Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Pediatrician-led motivational interviewing can be an effective way of controlling BMI in overweight children in the short term. Its long-term efficacy is unknown. The primary aim was to determine whether the short-term (12-month) impact of family pediatrician-led motivational interviews on the BMI of overweight children could be sustained in the long term (24 months), in the absence of any other intervention.

Pediatrician-led motivational interviewing to treat overweight children: an RCT.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of family pediatrician-led motivational interviews (MIs) on BMI of overweight (85th ≥ BMI percentile ≥ 95 th) children aged 4 to 7 years.

Methods: All the family pediatricians working in Reggio Emilia Province (Italy) were invited to participate in the study; 95% accepted. Specific training was provided.