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The clinical setting remains a strategic environment for early assessment, identification and treatment of adolescents with obesity. Yet, healthcare providers' (HCPs) efforts have been unsuccessful in improving physical activity, nutritional intake or body mass index in adolescents with obesity. Obesity is a chronic condition that influences how patients interact with HCPs and experience ambulatory...
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has set forth recommendations for clinicians to screen youth (6‐18 years) for obesity. Those identified should be referred to comprehensive weight management programs consisting of at least 26 contact hours and focus on multiple targets of behaviour (ie, diet, physical activity, behaviour change). However, these recommendations are primarily based upon...
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