Maintenance interventions for overweight or obese children and adolescents who participated in a treatment program: study protocol for a systematic review

Childhood overweight and obesity are associated with significant health consequences. Early and successful treatment of this public health issue is necessary. Although several intervention programs for children result in weight loss or stabilisation in the short term, preventing relapse after weight...

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Published in:Systematic reviews 2014-10, Vol.3 (1), p.111-111, Article 111
Main Authors: van der Heijden, Laila B, Feskens, Edith J M, Janse, Arieke J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Body Mass Index
Chair Nutrition and Disease
Child
Data collection
Health care
HNE Nutrition and Disease
HNE Voeding en Ziekte
Humans
Initiatives
Intervention
Life Style
Lifestyles
Meta-Analysis as Topic
Nutrition and Disease
Obesity
Overweight
Pediatric Obesity - therapy
Program Evaluation
Protocol
Research Design
Systematic review
Systematic Reviews as Topic
Teenagers
VLAG
Voeding en Ziekte
Weight control
Weight Loss
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Summary:Childhood overweight and obesity are associated with significant health consequences. Early and successful treatment of this public health issue is necessary. Although several intervention programs for children result in weight loss or stabilisation in the short term, preventing relapse after weight loss remains an important challenge. Weight loss maintenance approaches in childhood are thought to be promising, but a structured overview of these maintenance interventions is lacking. The aim of the systematic review described in this protocol is to provide an overview of reports published about maintenance interventions in childhood overweight and obesity following initial treatment, in order to guide future directions in the development of maintenance programs for childhood obesity. The electronic databases PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, CINAHL, Web of Science, PsycINFO, Scopus, and SocINDEX will be searched for this review. Reference lists of eligible study reports will be scanned for relevant references. Article selection including risk of bias assessment will be performed independently in an unblinded standardised manner by three authors. All reports describing a maintenance intervention in overweight or obese children with a mean or median age of
ISSN:2046-4053
2046-4053
DOI:10.1186/2046-4053-3-111