Empowering Families and Providers With a Lifestyle Medicine Approach to Pediatric Obesity

IF 1.5 Q3 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
J. Blakely Amati, Erin L. Brackbill
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Abstract

Pediatric overweight and obesity is a complex chronic medical condition with a multitude of contributing factors. Rates are now nearly double what they were before the COVID-19 pandemic and if the current trajectory holds it is anticipated that by 2050 one in every two US children will experience obesity before the age of thirty-five. Pediatric obesity guidelines emphasize referral to intensive health behavior and lifestyle therapy programs, but these are difficult to access. Front line providers caring for children can use a lifestyle medicine approach within the medical home to make lifestyle changes easier. Lifestyle Medicine can promote a family-oriented, weight-neutral approach by (1) Educating and equipping providers to assess readiness to change and providing high-quality motivational interviewing and lifestyle counseling, (2) Equipping patients and their families with tools involving the six lifestyle interventions to optimize health starting an early age, and (3) Offering a longitudinal uniform office approach to effectively prevent, manage and often reverse obesity and related comorbidities through healthy habit change.
用生活方式医学方法增强家庭和医疗服务提供者应对小儿肥胖症的能力
小儿超重和肥胖是一种复杂的慢性疾病,诱因众多。现在的发病率几乎是 COVID-19 大流行之前的两倍,如果目前的轨迹保持不变,预计到 2050 年,每两名美国儿童中就有一名会在 35 岁之前患上肥胖症。儿科肥胖症指南强调转诊至强化健康行为和生活方式治疗项目,但这些项目很难获得。照顾儿童的一线医疗服务提供者可以在医疗之家中使用生活方式医学方法,让改变生活方式变得更容易。生活方式医学可通过以下方式促进以家庭为导向、体重中立的方法:(1)教育和装备医疗服务提供者,以评估改变的准备程度,并提供高质量的动机访谈和生活方式咨询;(2)为患者及其家人提供涉及六种生活方式干预措施的工具,以从幼年开始优化健康;以及(3)提供纵向的统一诊室方法,通过改变健康习惯来有效预防、管理并经常逆转肥胖及相关并发症。
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American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-
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