Maternal depressive symptom trajectories and associations with child feeding.

Background: Responsive feeding, when caregivers attend to children's signals of hunger and satiation and respond in an emotionally supportive and developmentally appropriate way, is associated with the development of healthy eating behaviors, improved diet quality, and healthy weight status for children. However, gaps in the literature remain on how factors, such as maternal depressive symptoms and child temperament, influence feeding interactions.

Methods: This longitudinal secondary data analysis explored the association between maternal depressive symptom trajectory and child temperament with maternal feeding practices in women with obesity who participated in a prenatal lifestyle intervention trial.

An Adaptive Telephone Coaching Intervention for Patients in an Online Weight Loss Program: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Importance: Weight loss (WL) during the first month of a behavioral program is associated with longer-term WL. Testing of translatable and adaptive obesity programs is needed.

Objective: To compare brief, extended, and no telephone coaching for individuals with suboptimal response (ie, 1-month WL <4%) within an online WL program.

"Be more positive and more kind to your own bodies": Adolescent and young adult preferences for how parents can support their children with weight-related pressures.

Body dissatisfaction is a key factor contributing to the development of disordered eating, and body dissatisfaction is often influenced by media, peer, and parental pressures during adolescence. Little research has explored ways in which parents can help their children manage pressures from social media and their peers. The present study used the MyVoice National Poll of Youth, a large text-message cohort of young people (14-24 years old) in the United States, to collect and examine qualitative data about their experiences with parental weight-related communication and how they think parents can best support their children regarding messages they see/hear surrounding weight, body shape and size by their peers and media sources.

Change in Body Mass Index in Youth in the First 5 Years After Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Diagnosis.

Objective: Examine body mass index (BMI) trajectories in American youth with type 1 diabetes (T1D) over the first 5 years following diagnosis.

Methods: Retrospective record review of BMI trajectories in youth with T1D diagnosed in 2015 to 2016.

Results: Near the time of diabetes diagnosis, 35.

Goals, Barriers, and Facilitators of Caregivers Who Participated in an In-Home Intervention to Improve Food Parenting Practices and Child Diet Quality.

Objective: To explore the goals, barriers, and facilitators set by caregivers of preschool-aged children to improve food parenting practices and household food environments.

Design: Secondary qualitative analysis of collaborative goal sheets completed during in-home and telephone visits as part of a home-based pilot intervention.

Participants: Thirty-three Hispanic/Latinx caregivers, predominantly of low income.

Pragmatic Implementation of Online Obesity Treatment and Maintenance Interventions in Primary Care: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Importance: Behavioral weight loss interventions have achieved success in primary care; however, to our knowledge, pragmatic implementation of a fully automated treatment that requires little researcher oversight has not been tested. Moreover, weight loss maintenance remains a challenge.

Objective: To evaluate the long-term effectiveness of an automated, online, behavioral obesity treatment program (Rx Weight Loss [RxWL]) at 12 months (primary end point) and 24 months when delivered pragmatically in primary care and to compare the effectiveness of 3 weight loss maintenance approaches.

Perceived delivery of essential yoga properties within in-person and remote weight loss maintenance interventions.

Objectives: While previous research has utilized remote delivery of yoga interventions, no research has specifically interrogated the effectiveness of remote yoga intervention delivery. In this secondary analysis of weight-maintenance trial data, we examined participant perceptions of essential yoga properties across in-person and remote formats, hypothesizing that perceptions would not differ following remote delivery.

Methods: 24 women with overweight or obesity (34.

Associations of daily weight management-focused social support with weight loss, activity behaviors, and eating regulation in the context of metabolic and bariatric surgery.

Objective: Greater perceived social support (PSS) is associated with more favorable changes in weight loss, activity behaviors, and eating regulation after metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS). However, studies have relied on generic, retrospective PSS measures, and stability of PSS levels and relations with weight loss and weight-related behaviors over time is unknown. Using smartphone-based Ecological Momentary Assessment, this study evaluated pre-to 1-year post-MBS changes in daily weight management-focused PSS and associations with weight loss, device-measured activity behaviors, and eating regulation before and during the initial year after MBS.

Importance of early weight loss and other predictors of lower weight loss in a commercial program: A secondary data analysis.

Objective: There is substantial inter-individual variability in response to weight loss interventions and emerging evidence suggests that weight loss during the early weeks of an intervention may be predictive of longer-term weight loss. This secondary analysis of data from a commercial program therefore examined 1) the associations between early weight loss (i.e.

An explanation for the accuracy of sensor-based measures of energy intake: Amount of food consumed matters more than dietary composition.

Understanding and intervening on eating behavior often necessitates measurement of energy intake (EI); however, commonly utilized and widely accepted methods vary in accuracy and place significant burden on users (e.g., food diaries), or are costly to implement (e.

Variety of High and Very Low-Energy Density Foods among Preschool-Aged Children and Associations with Food Intake, Diet Quality, and Weight Status.

Background: Energy density (ED) and the variety of foods are 2 factors that may have a combined effect on preschool-aged children's ability to regulate food intake. However, little is known about the variety of foods consumed within different ED categories by children in the United States.

Objective: Therefore, we explored the variety of high ED (HED, 4-9 kcal/g) and very low ED (VLED, <0.

Leveraging seasonality and timing to optimize pediatric weight management interventions: Novel directions for future research.

National estimates suggest that more than 35% of American children, ages 2-19 years, are overweight or obese, which increases their risk for weight-related comorbidities including diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease risk factors, depression, and anxiety. While obesity prevention is most cost-effective, for youth with existing obesity, the United States Preventive Services Task Force recommends ≥26 h of comprehensive lifestyle intervention over 6-12 months. This include standard behavioral therapy, dietary counseling, and an emphasis on physical activity.

Associations that Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Body Mass Index Loss Have with Deficit Accumulation Frailty.

Introduction/purpose: Lower cardiorespiratory fitness and obesity may accelerate aging processes. The degree to which changes in fitness and body mass index (BMI) may alter the rate of aging may be important for planning treatment. We assessed cross-sectional and longitudinal associations that cardiorespiratory fitness and BMI had with a deficit accumulation frailty index (FI).

Evaluating the effect of targeting body shape concerns on long-term weight change.

Objective: The goal of this follow-up to a randomized proof-of-concept study was to determine if targeting body shape concern (BSC) has a clinically significant impact on long-term weight change among adult women of higher body weight with BSC. A secondary aim was to observe the maintenance of body image improvements during follow-up.

Method: In the original 4-week trial, women were randomized to behavioral weight loss recommendations alone (control; n = 15) or combined with the evidence-based body project intervention (n = 17).

Association of Migraine and Blood Pressure-Does Obesity Severity Have a Moderating Role?

Background: The relationship between migraine and blood pressure (BP) is equivocal, warranting exploration of potential moderators. Obesity associates with both migraine and BP in a dose-dependent fashion, although its role as a moderator has not been evaluated. We examined the relation between migraine and BP in women with comorbid migraine and obesity, and whether this relation was influenced by obesity severity.

The potential for graphical abstracts to enhance science communication.

Science communication, including formats such as podcasts, news interviews, or graphical abstracts, can contribute to the acceleration of translational research by improving knowledge transfer to patient, policymaker, and practitioner communities. In particular, graphical abstracts, which are optional for articles published in Translational Behavioral Medicine as well as many other journals, are created by authors of scientific articles or by editorial staff to visually present a study's design, findings, and implications, to improve comprehension among non-academic audiences. The use of graphical abstracts in scientific journals has increased in the past 10-15 years; however, most scientists are not trained in how to develop them, which presents a challenge for creating graphical abstracts that engage the public.

Testing an insurance-based monetary incentive program for exercise: RCT design and rationale.

Participation in regular physical activity (PA) has numerous health benefits; however, as few as 10% of U.S. adults meet guidelines when device-based assessments of PA are used.

A randomized trial examining the effect of yoga on dietary lapses and lapse triggers following behavioral weight loss treatment.

Background: Dietary lapses can hinder weight loss and yoga can improve self-regulation, which may protect against lapses. This study examined the effect of yoga on dietary lapses, potential lapse triggers (e.g.

Referral to Adolescent Weight Management Interventions: Qualitative Perspectives From Providers.

Objective: Current guidelines for treatment of obesity in adolescence include screening and referring youth with obesity to appropriate weight management (WM) care. However, prior work has not explored the referral process to adolescent WM programs, especially for youth from lower-income backgrounds, who are at increased risk of obesity and related negative health outcomes. This qualitative study sought to understand pediatricians' current practices regarding referrals to adolescent WM interventions with a focus on adolescents from lower-income backgrounds.

Association of weight and shape concern with weight change and weight-related behaviors in behavioral weight loss treatment.

Weight and shape concern (WSC) is a facet of negative body image that is common among individuals with overweight/obesity seeking behavioral weight loss treatment (BWL), but remains understudied. This secondary analysis evaluates associations between WSC, weight change, and weight-related behaviors among individuals in a 24-week BWL. Adults (n = 32) with body mass index 25-50 kg/m completed a baseline WSC questionnaire, measured weight at 12 and 24 weeks, measured physical activity via accelerometer, and completed 24-hour dietary recalls.

The association of food insecurity on body mass index change in a pediatric weight management intervention.

Background: Childhood obesity is a critical public health concern. One potential determinant to obesity that is less understood is food insecurity.

Objective: To examine the association of food security status on body mass index (BMI) change in a Pediatric Weight Management Intervention (PWMI) consistent with national treatment recommendations.

The Importance of Lay Summaries for Improving Science Communication.

Lay summaries help the public connect with your research. Communicate your science with these guidelines for crafting lay summaries