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ArticleAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences2025

Behavior-change lifestyle interventions for the treatment of obesity in children and adolescents: A scoping review.

Liubai Li, Feng Sun, Jian Du, Zhixia Li, Tianjiao Chen, Xuanyu Shi

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Article in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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6 authors.

Liubai LiInstitute of Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Feng SunPeking University Center for Evidence Based Medicine and Clinical Research, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Jian DuNational Institute of Health Data Science, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Zhixia LiPeking University Center for Evidence Based Medicine and Clinical Research, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Tianjiao ChenInstitute of Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Xuanyu ShiNational Institute of Health Data Science, Peking University, Beijing, China.

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World Health Organization
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Behavior-change lifestyle interventions are fundamental in children and adolescent obesity management. This scoping review discusses optimal behavior-change lifestyle interventions in the treatment of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents. A literature search on diet, physical activity, and behavioral intervention for obesity treatment in children and adolescents aged 0-19 years was conducted in the Cochrane Library, MEDLINE (OVID), EMBASE, and ClinicalTrials.gov. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses with randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published in English from June 2016 to November 2022 were retrieved to identify recent advancements. Obesity outcomes included body weight, body mass index (BMI), BMI z-score, and fat percentage, among others. The 28 located reviews included: four studies on diet therapy; five on physical activity (exercise training); one on sedentary activities; 18 on multicomponent behavior-change lifestyle interventions, including three that incorporated gaming; three with eHealth, mobile health (mHealth), or telehealth, with one in each category; and two on motivational interviewing. Behavior-change lifestyle interventions to reduce obesity in children and adolescents were associated with moderate effects, with low-quality evidence for diet therapy and high-quality evidence for exercise training, both for weight or BMI reduction. Long-term intensive multicomponent behavioral interventions with parental involvement demonstrated better effects.

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Behavior TherapyLife StylePediatric ObesityAdolescentBody Mass IndexChildChild, PreschoolExerciseHumansbehavior‐change interventionchildren and adolescentsobesityrandomized controlled trialsystematic review

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PMCPMC11776450

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