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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Obesity Prevention and Control: Digital Health Interventions for Adolescents with Overweight or Obesity

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Systematic Review

Source: The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Last Reviewed: July 2019

Workgroups: Nutrition and Weight Status Workgroup, Adolescent Health Workgroup, Health Communication and Health Information Technology Workgroup

The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends digital health interventions to help adolescents who are overweight or have obesity to manage their weight. In the interventions, trained moderators, supervised by health care providers, help adolescents learn about healthy behaviors and teach them how to use the program’s website, mobile app, or wearable devices. Adolescents record their weight and their dietary or physical activity behaviors, and they track progress toward goals. CPSTF found that these interventions lead to small but meaningful weight loss.

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Objectives related to this resource (1)

Reduce the proportion of children and adolescents with obesity — NWS‑04
LHI label
Little or no detectable change

Suggested Citation

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Guide to Community Preventive Services. (2019). Obesity Prevention and Control: Digital Health Interventions for Adolescents with Overweight or Obesity. Retrieved from https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/obesity-prevention-and-control-digital-health-interventions-adolescents-overweight-obesity