Trial reportPediatric obesity2019
'Ripple' effect on infant zBMI trajectory of an internet-based weight loss program for low-income postpartum women.
Trial report in Pediatric obesity, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interventions to Reduce Screen Time in Preschool-Aged Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026Pooled it
- Interventions to prevent obesity in Latinx children birth to 6 years globally: a systematic review.Public health nutrition · 2023Pooled it
- Addressing obesity in the first 1000 days in high risk infants: Systematic review.Maternal & child nutrition · 2021Pooled it
- Parent and child dietary changes in a 6-month mobile-delivered weight loss intervention with tailored messaging for parents.Frontiers in public health · 2022Trial
- Impact of an Internet-Based Lifestyle Intervention on Behavioral and Psychosocial Factors During Postpartum Weight Loss.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2020Trial
- Effects of a Faith-Based Obesity Intervention on African American and Latino Adults' Children.Community health equity research & policy · 2024Article
- Rationale and design of integrating a parents first obesity intervention with a pediatric weight management intervention for rural families - Evaluating the ripple effect.Contemporary clinical trials · 2023Article
- Overview of a new eHealth intervention to promote healthy eating and exercise in pregnancy: Initial user responses and acceptability.Internet interventions · 2021Article
- Ripple Effect of Lifestyle Interventions During Pregnancy on Untreated Partners' Weight.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundWeight loss interventions can have positive 'ripple' effects on untreated partners in the home, but ripple effects on infants are unknown.
objectiveTo examine whether a 12-month internet-based weight loss intervention for postpartum mothers had a positive ripple effect on participants' infants.
methodsA 12-month cluster randomized, assessor-blind, clinical trial enrolling 371 postpartum women at 12 Women, Infants, Children clinics in CA. Clinics were randomized to standard Women, Infants, Children or an internet-based weight loss intervention for mothers.
resultsA total of 333 of the 371 (89.8%) mothers assented for infant participation. Infants were 5.3 ± 3.2 months; 75.9% were Hispanic and 64% were breastfeeding. Infant retention was 272/333 (82.7%) at 6 months post enrollment and 251/333 (75.3%) at 12 months post enrollment. In intent-to-treat analysis, a significant interaction between group and time was observed (p = 0.008) with the offspring of intervention mothers exhibiting lower zBMI change from study entry through 6 months (0.23 [CI, 0.03, 0.44] vs. 0.65 [0.50, 0.79] zBMI change, respectively; p = 0.001) but was not significant through 12 months (p = 0.16). Regardless of group, maternal reports at the final assessment indicated that infants (aged =17.2 ± 3.4 months) consumed sweetened beverages (0.93 ± 1.5/week), juice (2.0 ± 1.4/day), 'junk food' (7.8 ± 5.4/week) and fast food (2/month), and 46.7% of the infants had a TV in their bedroom.
conclusionsAn internet-based weight loss program for low-income, postpartum mothers had a positive 'ripple' effect on the zBMI of infants in the home during the first 6 months of treatment.
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