Recommendations From Parents to Improve Health Services for Managing Pediatric Obesity in Canada.

Objective: Although parents are uniquely positioned to offer first-hand insights that can be used to improve health services for managing pediatric obesity, their perspective is underexplored. Our objective was to characterize parents' recommendations for enhancing tertiary-level health services for managing pediatric obesity in Canada.

Methods: Semistructured, one-on-one interviews were conducted with parents of children who initiated treatment at 1 of 4 Canadian tertiary-level, multidisciplinary weight management clinics.

Tools and resources for preventing childhood obesity in primary care: A method of evaluation and preliminary assessment.

Objectives: To pilot-test a mixed methods approach to evaluate tools and resources (TRs) that healthcare providers (HCPs) use for preventing childhood obesity in primary care, and report a preliminary descriptive assessment of commonly-used TRs.

Methods: This mixed methods study included individual, semi-structured interviews with purposefully-sampled HCPs in Alberta, Canada; interviews were digitally recorded and analyzed thematically (phase I). Two independent reviewers used three assessment checklists to evaluate commonly-used TRs (phase II).

The Development and Refinement of an e-Health Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment for Parents to Prevent Childhood Obesity in Primary Care.

Background: Nearly one-third of Canadian children can be categorized as overweight or obese. There is a growing interest in applying e-health approaches to prevent unhealthy weight gain in children, especially in settings that families access regularly. Our objective was to develop and refine an e-health screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) for parents to help prevent childhood obesity in primary care.

Lifestyle Behaviors of Parents of Children in Pediatric Weight Management: Are They Meeting Recommendations?

Objective: Our objective was to examine the lifestyle behaviors of parents of children in pediatric weight management.

Methods: Parents were recruited upon presentation of their children (body mass index [BMI] ≥85th percentile) to a pediatric weight management clinic. Parents' demographic, anthropometric, and lifestyle habit data were collected by self-report.

Attrition and the management of pediatric obesity: an integrative review.

Background: A key challenge in managing pediatric obesity is the high degree of program attrition, which can reduce therapeutic benefits and contribute to inefficient health services delivery. Our aim was to document and characterize predictors of, and reasons for, attrition in pediatric obesity management.

Methods: We searched literature published until January 2014 in five databases (CINAHL, EMBASE, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and Scopus).