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Almost one out of every three US children is overweight or obese, with minority youth at highest risk. There are limited efficacious pediatric obesity interventions available for clinicians, and successful weight loss trials for minority youth are rare. Even fewer interventions have been shown to significantly improve clinical health outcomes such as adiposity, blood pressure, and cholesterol level, and maintenance of behavior change over the long-term remains a challenge Translation I research in which "bench" findings are applied to the "bedside" is uncommon in the behavioral arena. Thus, advances in our understanding of fundamental human processes such as motivation, emotion, cognition, self-regulation, decision-making, stress, and social networks are not being optimally applied to our most pressing behavioral health problems. This issue of Pediatric Clinics will focus on promising behavioral treatments "in the pipeline" that have been translated from basic behavioral science and are the process of refinement and proof of concept testing.
List of contents
1. Foreword: New Directions in Behavioral Intervention Development for Pediatric Obesity
2. Preface: From Bench to Bedside: T1 Translation of Basic Behavioral Science into Novel Pediatric Obesity Interventions
3. Errata
4. National Institutes of Health Update: Translating Basic Behavioral Science into New Pediatric Obesity Interventions
5. From Bench to Bedside: Understanding Stress-Obesity Research Within the Context of Translation to Improve Pediatric Behavioral Weight Management
6. Behavioral Economic Factors Related to Pediatric Obesity
7. Neurocognitive Processes and Pediatric Obesity Interventions: Review of Current Literature and Suggested Future Directions
8. Physical Activity Interventions for Neurocognitive and Academic Performance in Overweight and Obese Youth: A Systematic Review
9. Treating Obesity in Preschoolers: A Review and Recommendations for Addressing Critical Gaps
10. Development of a Behavioral Sleep Intervention as a Novel Approach for Pediatric Obesity in School-aged Children
11. Effective Patient-Provider Communication in Pediatric Obesity
12. Advances in Motivational Interviewing for Pediatric Obesity: Results of the Brief Motivational Interviewing to Reduce Body Mass Index Trial and Future Directions
13. Index
