TY - JOUR
T1 - What is needed to reverse the trends in childhood obesity? A call to action
AU - Estabrooks, Paul A.
AU - Fisher, Edwin B.
AU - Hayman, Laura L.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgment This paper provides an overview of sessions related to childhood obesity at the 2007 Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting. Financial support was provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (grant #59156-PI Estabrooks).
PY - 2008/12
Y1 - 2008/12
N2 - Background: To address the complexity of issues surrounding childhood obesity, the Society of Behavioral Medicine identified childhood obesity as a special focus of its 2007 Annual Meeting. Purpose: The purpose of this paper was to provide a brief summary of the content of these sessions, promising practices that were presented, and recommendations for behavioral medicine research and practice professionals to facilitate reversing the current trends in childhood obesity. Methods and Results: A social-ecological perspective was used to discuss views on biological and genetic perspectives, the need for policy and environmental approaches, and the need to expand the types of research and practice being conducted. Conclusions: Recommendations included the need to (1) conduct a broader examination of potential policy, program, and practice strategies across social ecological levels, (2) use team approaches to science that include multiple disciplines and perspectives, (3) expand the methods and metrics used to demonstrate the value of childhood obesity treatment or prevention interventions, (4) use integrated research and practice partnerships, and (5) explicitly assess the potential of intervention strategies to reduce health disparities.
AB - Background: To address the complexity of issues surrounding childhood obesity, the Society of Behavioral Medicine identified childhood obesity as a special focus of its 2007 Annual Meeting. Purpose: The purpose of this paper was to provide a brief summary of the content of these sessions, promising practices that were presented, and recommendations for behavioral medicine research and practice professionals to facilitate reversing the current trends in childhood obesity. Methods and Results: A social-ecological perspective was used to discuss views on biological and genetic perspectives, the need for policy and environmental approaches, and the need to expand the types of research and practice being conducted. Conclusions: Recommendations included the need to (1) conduct a broader examination of potential policy, program, and practice strategies across social ecological levels, (2) use team approaches to science that include multiple disciplines and perspectives, (3) expand the methods and metrics used to demonstrate the value of childhood obesity treatment or prevention interventions, (4) use integrated research and practice partnerships, and (5) explicitly assess the potential of intervention strategies to reduce health disparities.
KW - Childhood obesity
KW - Social-ecological perspective
KW - Treatment or prevention interventions
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U2 - 10.1007/s12160-008-9070-7
DO - 10.1007/s12160-008-9070-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 19052828
AN - SCOPUS:57749174849
VL - 36
SP - 209
EP - 216
JO - Annals of Behavioral Medicine
JF - Annals of Behavioral Medicine
SN - 0883-6612
IS - 3
ER -