Differences in home food and activity environments between obese and healthy weight families of preschool children.

Objective: To develop and test a home food and activity instrument to discriminate between the home environments of obese and healthy weight preschool children.

Design: A modified questionnaire about home environments was tested as an observation tool.

Setting: Family homes.

Developing a Treatment Program for Obesity in Preschool Age Children: Preliminary Data.

We developed and tested the feasibility of a behavioral intervention that utilizes clinic and home visitations to reduce overweight in preschool children above the 95(th) BMI percentile. Five families of preschool children ages 2 to 5 years with a BMI above the 95(th) percentile and one overweight parent were enrolled in a 24-week behavioral weight management program. Phase I, Intensive Treatment included 12 weekly sessions, alternating group-based clinic sessions and home settings.