Attrition in paediatric weight management: a review of the literature and new directions
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...Other family factors that may impact on attrition included unmet expectations, too much information to learn, cost, and scheduling conflicts [23,24]....
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...A review of the literature relating to attrition from paediatric weight management programs suggest that between 27% and 73% of participants drop out of interventions [23]....
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...minority groups, single parent families) although this was not conclusive [23]....
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...As in many other studies involving overweight participants [20], the drop-out rate of the obese children was high (41% after the first visit, 31% after the second and the third visit, with no differences between girls and boys)....
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...3% of children and adolescents are obese (1,2)....
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...Finally, treatment of paediatric obesity is intensive, featuring numerous health and health-related disciplines, frequent visits and meetings, and necessitating participation of the entire family (16)....
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...This trend is serious, because paediatric obesity substantially increases the risk of later morbidity and mortality, primarily from cardiovascular disease and diabetes (4)....
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...The Chronic Care Model (44) has focused on this interaction as a means to maximize medical care, and is likely relevant to the problem of paediatric obesity treatment; however, obesity is a unique and complex disease....
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