Latino families, primary care, and childhood obesity: a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Few successful treatment modalities exist to address childhood obesity. Given Latinos' strong identity with family, a family-focused intervention may be able to control Latino childhood obesity.

Purpose: To assess the feasibility and effectiveness of a family-centered, primary care-based approach to control childhood obesity through lifestyle choices.

The medical home: relationships with family functioning for children with and without special health care needs.

Objective: In this study we tested the association of the medical home with family functioning for children without and with special health care needs (CSHCN).

Methods: We used data from the 2007 National Survey of Children's Health to run multivariate logistic regressions to test the association between having a medical home and family functioning (difficulty with parental coping, parental aggravation, childcare/work issues, and missed school days). We further assessed interactions of CSHCN status with having a medical home.