Treatment of overweight children: The relationship between dependent measures and a clinically significant outcome |
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Authors: | Pamela J. Mendonca Karl Altman |
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Affiliation: | (1) Children's Rehabilitation Unit, University of Kansas Medical Center, 66103 Kansas City, Kansas;(2) Bureau of Child Research, 348 Haworth, 66045 Lawrence, Kansas |
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Abstract: | Behavioral treatments for overweight children have not fared well in achieving or maintaining clinically significant weight losses. The use of more appropriate dependent measures which also take height, sex, and age into consideration is suggested. A multiple-baseline analysis of the behavioral treatment of seven overweight children was conducted. Results support the contention that a more clinically significant outcome emerges when appropriate measures are used. |
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Keywords: | overweight children measurement of weight loss clinical significance maintenance behavioral weight control |
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