Loss to follow-up in a randomized controlled trial study for pediatric weight management (EPOC)
- Background: Attrition is a serious problem in intervention studies. The current study analyzed the attrition rate during follow-up in a randomized controlled pediatric weight management program (EPOC study) within a tertiary care setting. Methods: Five hundred twenty-three parents and their 7-13-year-old children with obesity participated in the randomized controlled intervention trial. Follow-up data were assessed 6 and 12 months after the end of treatment. Attrition was defined as providing no objective weight data. Demographic and psychological baseline characteristics were used to predict attrition at 6- and 12-month follow-up using multivariate logistic regression analyses. Conclusions: The minor differences between the completers and the non-completers suggest that our retention strategies were successful. Further research should focus on prevention of attrition in families with a lower educational background.
Author details: | Petra WarschburgerORCiDGND, Katja Kröller |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-016-0727-2 |
ISSN: | 1471-2431 |
Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27842526 |
Title of parent work (English): | BMC PEDIATRICS |
Publisher: | BioMed Central |
Place of publishing: | London |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2016 |
Publication year: | 2016 |
Release date: | 2020/03/22 |
Tag: | Attrition; Child; Obesity; Predictors; Weight management trial |
Volume: | 16 |
Number of pages: | 9 |
Funding institution: | DFG (German Research Foundation) [WA 1143/4-1, WA 1143/4-2] |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Psychologie |