Personal Activity Trackers and Family Engagement in a Pediatric Obesity Intervention: Randomized Controlled Trial
Families in the intervention group that completed the program had slightly better weight outcomes than the controls. Engaging parents through digital health interventions may be an effective way to enhance existing pediatric obesity intervention programs.
Authors
- Patricia Castillo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5456-6249)
- Juan Espinoza (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0513-588X)
- Olga Solomon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4505-3320)
- Payal Shah (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5211-6169)
- Ramón Durazo-Arvizú (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6563-7107)
- Choo Phei Wee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2954-4752)
- Mahsa Babaei (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8016-7016)
- Alexis Deavenport‐Saman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8715-7531)
- Abu Sikder (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8300-479X)
- Larry Yin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4312-8285)
Institutions
- Northwestern University (US)
- University of Southern California (US)
- Children's Hospital of Los Angeles (US)
- Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute (US)
- Lurie Children's Hospital (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JMIR Formative Research
- Published
- 2025-11-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2196/70341
- Primary Topic
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00