{"doi":"10.1111/ijpo.13062","title":"Relationships examined: Parent and child readiness to change and sociodemographic characteristics in family based weight loss treatment","abstract":"BACKGROUND: Family based treatment is an effective, multipronged approach to address obesity as it plagues families. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationships among sociodemographic characteristics (e.g., education and income), body mass index (BMI) and race/ethnicity with readiness to change for parents enrolled in the Primary care pediatrics, Learning, Activity and Nutrition (PLAN) study. METHODS: Multivariate linear regressions tested two hypotheses: (1) White parents will have higher levels of baseline readiness to change, when compared to Black parents; (2) parents with higher income and education will have higher levels of readiness to change at baseline. RESULTS: A positive relationship exists between baseline parent BMI and readiness to change (Pearson correlation, 0.09, p < 0.05); statistically significant relationships exist between parent education level (-0.14, p < 0.05), income (0.04, p < 0.05) and readiness to change. Additionally, a statistically significant relationship exists, with both White (β, -0.10, p < 0.05), and Other, non-Hispanic (-0.10, p < 0.05) parents exhibiting lower readiness to change than Black, non-Hispanic parents. Child data did not indicate significant relationships between race/ethnicity and readiness to change. CONCLUSIONS: Results demonstrate that investigators should consider sociodemographic characteristic factors and different levels of readiness to change in participants enrolling in obesity interventions.","journal":"Pediatric Obesity","year":2023,"id":356220,"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":4,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9603,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2023-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":263620,"name":"Denise E. Wilfley","orcid":"0000-0002-3599-8689","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":370483,"name":"Rachel G. Tabak","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":653080,"name":"Daphne Lew","orcid":"0000-0001-5433-2367","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":722026,"name":"Nasreen A. Moursi","orcid":"0000-0003-2974-4647","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":722024,"name":"Colleen Kilanowski","orcid":"0000-0002-3031-9210","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":722606,"name":"Steven R. Cook","orcid":null,"position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":722028,"name":"Ihuoma Eneli","orcid":"0000-0002-4436-7141","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":722027,"name":"Teresa Quattrin","orcid":"0000-0002-2385-9278","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":243672,"name":"Kenneth B. Schechtman","orcid":null,"position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":328340,"name":"Leonard H. Epstein","orcid":"0000-0003-1167-8848","position":10,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":722025,"name":"Melissa Ramel","orcid":"0000-0002-2712-405X","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":42,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T01:13:25.429924Z","pmid":"37282798","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":[]}