{"doi":"10.1002/oby.23627","title":"Real‐world effectiveness of the Bright Bodies healthy lifestyle intervention for childhood obesity","abstract":"OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to examine the extent to which Bright Bodies, a high-intensity, family-based pediatric weight management intervention, improved BMI for participants since publication of the randomized controlled trial establishing efficacy in 2007 and to describe adaptations to the program. METHODS: For participants enrolled from 2008 to 2018, linear mixed-effects models were used to estimate monthly change in BMI expressed as percentage of the 95th percentile (%BMIp95) during participants' first beginner-level program. RESULTS: The sample included 396 youth individuals (mean age: 11.7 [SD 2.8] years, 61.6% female, 37.1% non-Hispanic Black, 26.3% Hispanic or Latino, 53.8% with public insurance, 80.1% with severe obesity). Across the 11 years, participants' %BMIp95 reduced on average by 1.63% (95% CI: 1.44%-1.82%) per month during their first program (mean duration: 10 weeks) after adjusting for age, sex, season and year, starting %BMIp95, race and ethnicity, and insurance category. Greater reduction in %BMIp95 was associated with male versus female sex, spring/fall versus winter seasons, enrollment in 2008 to 2018 versus 2015 to 2018, and higher starting %BMIp95 (p value for all <0.001). Adaptations since 2007 included pragmatic changes to increase engagement and address funding shortages. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest sustained clinical effectiveness of Bright Bodies in the context of real-world adaptations.","journal":"Obesity","year":2022,"id":274803,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":10,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9463,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2022-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":943376,"name":"Pamela Hu","orcid":"0000-0003-0475-4312","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":499088,"name":"Kaitlin R. Maciejewski","orcid":"0000-0002-6387-582X","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":517793,"name":"Fangyong Li","orcid":"0000-0003-3171-7592","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":230349,"name":"James Dziura","orcid":"0000-0001-8953-6183","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":524896,"name":"Mary Savoye","orcid":null,"position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":413218,"name":"Mona Sharifi","orcid":"0000-0002-1632-7038","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":936951,"name":"Stephanie Samuels","orcid":"0000-0002-0873-9841","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":44,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T00:28:12.324621Z","pmid":"36502287","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}