childhood obesity: small changes in clinic to make a big impact
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Childhood Obesity:Small Changes in clinic to make a big impact
Why should you care? 30 states have pediatric populations in
which at least 30% of children are overweight/obese.
Significant short- and long-term morbidity associated with being overweight Physiological and psychological
$1000/year increase in medical costs on average for people who are overweight/obese
Plot BMI percentile in ALL children
Show BMI percentile to parents at and talk about healthy lifestyle choices at EVERY visit
See those over the 85th monthly for 4-6 months
What to do?
One Resource for Talking to Families
http://www.mcph.org/Major_Activities/KeepMEHealthy/Guide_to_Effective_Communication.pdf
Anticipatory Guidance5-2-1-0…per day 5 fruits and veggies 2 hours or less of screen time 1 hour of physical activity 0 (restrict) soda, juice and
other sugar sweetened beverages
What about serving sizes?
And they vary by age…
4 staged-approach
1.Prevention Plus
2.Structured Weight Management
3.Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Intervention
4.Tertiary Care Intervention
BMI ≥85th
PCP monthly for 6 months
Goal: weight maintenance
No improvement? Stage 2
When you have a patient whose BMI is >85%ile This warrants monthly 15 minute office visits for 4-
6 months Things to discuss
BMI, PMH, Family history
Food intake: Fruits/veggies, soda, juice, fast food, portions, breakfast
Screen time/ daily activity
Feedback on current behaviors Positive/Constructive
15 minute Office Visit
Set agenda
Which behaviors is the patient/family interested in changing, or would be easiest to change. Agree on possible targets.
Assess motivation and confidence
Rate each on a scale of 0-10
Summarize and probe possible changes
Schedule follow-up visits as appropriate
Calorie restriction Structured daily meals/snacks Over 60 minutes of active play per day Less than one hour of screen time per day Increased behavioral monitoring Reinforcement for meeting behavioral goals No improvement for 6 months? Stage 3
Increased intensity of behavioral change strategies
Greater frequency of patient/provider contact
Inclusion of team members Psychologist Registered Dietitian Exercise Specialist Physician
Weekly visits for 8-12 weeks, followed by monthly visits
Individual or group
Meal Replacement
Very low calorie diet
Medication
Surgery
Multidisciplinary Team
Age (in years)
Weight Maintenance
Weight Loss <1b/mo
Weight loss <2lb/wk
2-5 85th-94th
≥95th
BMI>21
6-11 85th-94th
95th-98th
BMI≥99th
12-18 85th-94th
95th-98th
BMI≥99th
This is why you should care…
We must try to end this vicious cycle for the health of our patients
Take home (or to clinic) points Overweight/obesity affects many
children in this country with significant physiological, psychological and financial sequelae.
Anticipatory guidance AT EVERY VISIT, even for appropriate weight children, is essential to fight this epidemic.
Treatment begins in your office.
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