Table 1.

Parent- and Child-Reported Outcomes Measures in the Connect for Health Study.

Parent- and Child-Reported, Obesity-Related Outcomes of Interest	Measures & Source	Reported By:
		Parent	Child
Health-Related Quality of Life     Intervention goals: Improve parent- and child-report of child health-related quality of life	• Health-Related Quality of Life: Parents report their child's quality of life using the 4 subscales of the PedsQL-4.0; children report their own quality of life using the child version of the PedsQL validated among children ages 8 and over.32,33	X	X
Social and Emotional Wellness     Intervention goals: Assist parents in finding people, places, and resources to help reduce parent and child stress and improve parental empowerment related to their child's healthy body weight	• Perceived Stress: Parent and child report of the amount of general stress in their life; major predictor for suicide in Nurses' Health Study.41	X	X
	• Parental Resource Empowerment- Parent report of knowledge of, ability to access, and comfort accessing resources, as well as knowledge of the strategies needed to identify new resources, and ability to obtain those resources.34	X
Sleep Routines and Behaviors     Intervention goals: Meet age-appropriate recommendations for sleep duration to; promote a regular bedtime; adopt a calming nighttime routine	• Sleep duration: Parent report of average amount of daily sleep their children obtained including naps from the Pediatric Sleep Questionnaire.42-45	X
	• Regular bedtime: Parent and child report of typical bedtime on weekdays and weekend days.46	X	X
Screen time     Intervention goals: Limit screen-viewing and gaming time to < 2 hours/day	• TV and video viewing: Average daily hours spent watching TV or videos.47	X	X
	• Gaming: Average daily hours spent playing games on media such as television, desktop computers, laptops, portable DVD players, iPads, or smartphones48	X
Diet Quality     Intervention goals: Reduce sugar-sweetened beverages; replace non-nutritive snacks with fruits and vegetables; reduce fast food intake.	• Sugar-sweetened beverage and fruit & vegetable intake: fruit, vegetable, sugar-sweetened beverage (i.e., regular (not diet) sodas or soft drinks, including Malta, Penafiel, or Sumol, punch, Kool-Aid, Tampico, sports drinks, Goya juice or other fruit-flavored drinks) and water consumption are assessed using six questions drawn from the School Physical Activity and Nutrition monitoring system.49,50	X	X
	• Fast food intake: Modified question adapted from the Growing Up Today Study 51; associated with BMI.	X	X
Physical activity     Intervention goals: Increase the number of days that child is physically active for at least 60 minutes.	• Physical activity: Youth Risk Behavior Survey; examines the number of days in the past 7 days the child was physically active for a total of at least 60 minutes.52	X	X
Quality of Obesity-Related Health Care Services     Intervention goals: Improve the quality of obesity-related health care services provided by primary care provider.	• Quality of Obesity-Related Health Care Services: Assessed using 8 modified questions from the Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care.35	X
Exploratory Obesity-Related Outcomes That Matter Most to Parents & Children     Intervention goals: Improve weight-related outcomes that matter most to children and parents	• Exploratory questions: Five closed-ended questions for parents and children about the weight-related outcomes that mattered most to them. We asked parents, “How important is it to you for your child to...”, and asked children ages 8-12 years, “How important is it to you to...”. The items were: (1) not be overweight; (2) not be bullied or teased; (3) fit into clothing for children his or her age; (4) be accepted by other children his or her age; and (5) avoid health problems like diabetes or heart disease.	X	X