SynthesisObesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity2016
Reporting of treatment fidelity in behavioural paediatric obesity intervention trials: a systematic review.
Synthesis in Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01316653 (Growing Right Onto Wellness), which is not on this map. Cited by 29 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Growing Right Onto Wellness (GROW): Changing Early Childhood Body Mass Index (BMI) Trajectories
Who cites it
29 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 52 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Are dietary interventions with a behaviour change theoretical framework effective in changing dietary patterns? A systematic review.BMC public health · 2020Pooled it
- A systematic review of the implementation of obesity prevention interventions in early childcare and education settings using the RE-AIM framework.Translational behavioral medicine · 2020Pooled it
- Health professional-delivered obesity prevention interventions during the first 1,000 days: A systematic review of external validity reporting.HRB open research · 2019Pooled it
- Reporting of Telehealth-Delivered Dietary Intervention Trials in Chronic Disease: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2017Pooled it
- The dose of behavioral interventions to prevent and treat childhood obesity: a systematic review and meta-regression.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2017Pooled it
- Caregiver App Use and Child Behavioral Adherence in Relation to Obesity-Related Outcomes in an mHealth App-Assisted Childhood Obesity Intervention: Secondary Analysis of a Cluster Randomized Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2026Trial
- Retention, blinding, and health outcomes from a rural pediatric obesity feasibility randomized control trial.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2026Trial
- A three-arm randomized controlled trial using ecological momentary intervention, community health workers, and video feedback at family meals to improve child cardiovascular health: the Family Matters study design.BMC public health · 2023Trial
- Evaluating dose delivered of a behavioral intervention for childhood obesity prevention: a secondary analysis.BMC public health · 2020Trial
- Competency-Based Approaches to Community Health: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Reduce Childhood Obesity among Latino Preschool-Aged Children.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2019Trial
- The Healthy Homes/Healthy Kids 5-10 Obesity Prevention Trial: 12 and 24-month outcomes.Pediatric obesity · 2019Trial
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- Developing an implementation fidelity measure for a family healthy weight program.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Article
- Completeness of intervention reporting of nutrition-focused weight management interventions adjunct to metabolic and bariatric surgery: effect of the TIDieR checklist.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2024Review
- Developing and Implementing a Culturally Consonant Treatment Fidelity Support Plan with the Apsáalooke Nation.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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- Exploring the application of behaviour change technique taxonomies in childhood obesity prevention interventions: A systematic scoping review.Preventive medicine reports · 2022Article
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- Focusing on fidelity: narrative review and recommendations for improving intervention fidelity within trials of health behaviour change interventions.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2020Review
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Abstract
Behavioural interventions for paediatric obesity are promising, but detailed information on treatment fidelity (i.e. design, training, delivery, receipt and enactment) is needed to optimize the implementation of more effective interventions. Little is known about current practices for reporting treatment fidelity in paediatric obesity studies. This systematic review, in accordance with Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, describes the methods used to report treatment fidelity in randomized controlled trials. Treatment fidelity was double-coded using the National Institutes of Health Fidelity Framework checklist. Three hundred articles (N = 193 studies) were included. Mean inter-coder reliability across items was 0.83 (SD = 0.09). Reporting of treatment design elements within the field was high (e.g. 77% of studies reported designed length of treatment session), but reporting of other domains was low (e.g. only 7% of studies reported length of treatment sessions delivered). Few reported gold standard methods to evaluate treatment fidelity (e.g. coding treatment content delivered). General study quality was associated with reporting of treatment fidelity (p < 0.01) as was the number of articles published for a given study (p < 0.01). The frequency of reporting treatment fidelity components has not improved over time (p = 0.26). Specific recommendations are made to support paediatric obesity researchers in leading health behaviour disciplines towards more rigorous measurement and reporting of treatment fidelity.
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