Evaluating Intervention Programs Targeting Parents to Manage Childhood Overweight and Obesity: A Systematic Review Using the RE-AIM Framework

• We provided more information of the RE-AIM framework to justify our methodological purpose of the review of literature.
• We evaluated risk of bias of the studies to help readers more clearly understand both internal and external validity of the studies.
• We evaluated intervention programs in a single study since most programs (except one program) were reported in a single study.
• We added another search engine, PsycINFO and did not found any newly published or missing studies than the studies we included in the review.
• We chose to use only primary research studies and not include meta-analyses in our review.

Intervention programs targeting parents to manage childhood overweight and obesity have emerged based on parents influence on the health behaviors of their children. The purpose of this review was to systematically evaluate intervention programs targeting parents to manage childhood overweight and obesity using the Reach, Efficacy, Adopt, Implementation, and Maintenance (RE-AIM) framework. There was a moderate risk of bias across all studies. The overall proportion of studies (n = 7) reporting on each dimension of the RE-AIM framework ranged from 78.6% (reach) to 23.8% (maintenance). The majority of intervention programs demonstrated improvement in child BMI. However intervention programs did not reach families of diverse race/ethnicity, were provided by highly trained professionals, and demonstrated high attrition, thus limiting generalizability.