Families Becoming Healthy Together

FBT will receive a family-based, behavioral intervention for childhood obesity, consisting of group meetings once a week for months 1 to 4, twice a month for months 5 to 6, once a month for months 7 to 12, and once every two months for months 13 to 18 (29 sessions). For all meetings, the child and adult caregiver will be weighed and be provided with feedback, homework will be reviewed, and a behavioral lesson will be presented. At the 60-min meetings, the child and adult will attend separate 40 min group meetings, and then for the last 20 min of the meetings they will meet together with an individual therapist to address specific family-issues by developing behavioral action plans. No goals on variety in RED foods will be provided.

This condition is FBT with a limited variety prescription. The limited variety prescription reduces the number of different RED foods consumed.