Six-month dietary changes in ethnically diverse, obese adolescents participating in a multidisciplinary weight management program

Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2011 May;50(5):408-16. doi: 10.1177/0009922810393497. Epub 2011 Jan 10.

Abstract

This study's objective was to examine dietary and metabolic changes in obese adolescents who completed 6 months of participation in an outpatient multidisciplinary weight management program (N = 67). Participants (75% African American, 66% female, mean age = 13.7 years) completed 24-hour dietary recalls and underwent measurement of anthropometrics and fasting blood lipid parameters at baseline and after 6 months of participation. General linear models suggested that participants significantly reduced total energy, total fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate, sodium, and sugar intakes, and increased fiber and fruit and vegetable intake (P < .05). Gender-stratified models showed differences in fruit/vegetable intake, percentage calories from fat, sodium, and dietary cholesterol intakes by gender. Significant improvements in body mass index percentile and lipid profiles were also found, lending objective support to the dietary changes participants made. Findings suggest that participation in this multidisciplinary treatment helped participants make behaviorally based dietary changes, which were associated with improved dietary intakes and health status.

Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00167830.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Body Mass Index
  • Body Weight*
  • Body Weights and Measures
  • Child
  • Energy Intake*
  • Female
  • Food*
  • Humans
  • Lipids / blood
  • Male
  • Obesity / diet therapy*
  • Outpatients
  • Program Evaluation / methods
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Lipids

Associated data

  • ClinicalTrials.gov/NCT00167830