Parenting Intervention for Pediatric Obesity

Brief online videos, featuring families of children with obesity of diverse backgrounds, to provide education on parenting skills and motivate families to adopt healthy lifestyle behaviors as a family. Videos will be delivered monthly for three months in between pediatric obesity clinic visits.

Standard treatment in a hospital-based pediatric obesity clinic with a team of medical providers, dietitians, exercise specialists, and behavioral health specialists. Treatment includes management of obesity-related medical conditions, nutrition education, physical activity counseling, and discussion of behavioral strategies such as goal-setting and self-monitoring, with elements of motivational interviewing used to encourage behavior change and adoption of healthy lifestyle behaviors by the entire family.