Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ

Conclusions

• Obesity risk factors are very common in children and primary care interventions are needed for both normal weight and overweight children
• Parental interest in taking action, as well as motivational factors, vary by weight status and differ for nutrition and activity
• New approaches that use low cost technology to efficiently gather data are feasible in busy primary care settings
• This is a major clinical and public health problem that is important for practice based research networks to study creative, practical approaches