Scaling‐up evidence‐based obesity interventions: a systematic review assessing intervention adaptations and effectiveness and quantifying the scale‐up penalty

S McCrabb, C Lane, A Hall, A Milat, A Bauman… - Obesity …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Maximizing the benefits of investments in obesity research requires effective interventions to
be adopted and disseminated broadly across populations (scaled‐up). However …

[HTML][HTML] Best (but oft-forgotten) practices: identifying and accounting for regression to the mean in nutrition and obesity research

DM Thomas, N Clark, D Turner, C Siu… - The American journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Regression to the mean (RTM) is a statistical phenomenon where initial
measurements of a variable in a nonrandom sample at the extreme ends of a distribution …

Postpartum diet quality: A cross-sectional analysis from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health

JC Martin, AE Joham, GD Mishra, AM Hodge… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Reproductive-aged women are at high risk of developing obesity, and diet quality is a
potential modifiable risk factor. There is limited research exploring diet quality and its …

Targeting Pediatric Obesity via a Healthy Lifestyle Summer Camp Intervention: How Necessary Is a Parenting Component?

J Coto, PA Graziano - Childhood obesity, 2022 - liebertpub.com
Background: Pediatric obesity represents a significant public health concern, especially for
Hispanic school-aged children. This study examined via a randomized trial the efficacy of a …

The claim that effectiveness has been demonstrated in the Parenting, Eating and Activity for Child Health (PEACH) childhood obesity intervention is unsubstantiated …

BA Hannon, DM Thomas, C Siu… - British Journal of Nutrition, 2018 - cambridge.org
Childhood obesity prevalence is high, and effective strategies to prevent and treat this
disease are greatly needed. Hence, we read with interest the article by Moores et al.(1) …

Do parental preferences predict engagement in child health programs?

T Beatton, CJ Moores, D Sarkar, J Sarkar… - Health …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We evaluate the role of behavioral attributes in predicting engagement in an intervention
program. Distinct from the previous studies, we investigate how parental preferences …

Enrolment of families with overweight children into a program aimed at reducing childhood obesity with and without a weight criterion: a natural experiment

E Esdaile, E Hernandez, CJ Moores, HA Vidgen - BMC Public Health, 2019 - Springer
Background Difficulties engaging families with overweight children to enrol into programs
aimed at reducing childhood obesity have been well documented. During the …

Pediatric Obesity in Primary Care

LC Liggins - 2023 - digitalcommons.acu.edu
The purpose of this evidence-based quantitative quasi-experimental research was to
compare if providing the parents with information on the health risk associated with …

Regression to the mean for bivariate beta-binomial distributions

A Zafar - 2022 - dspace.qau.edu.pk
When comparatively high or low observations are remeasured, they are found to be closer to
the population mean, this reversion to the mean is termed as regression to the mean (RTM) …

Feasibility of a group-based, facilitator-directed online family lifestyle program

LK Bell, R Golley, CJ Moores, R Perry, J Hartley… - Journal of Nutrition …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective This study aimed to overcome barriers to access and attendance, and improve
recruitment and engagement, through delivery and evaluation of the Parenting, Eating and …