TABLE 2.

Father Involvement in Child and Adolescent Obesity Treatment and Prevention RCTs

	One Parent per Familya (n = 80)		Open Parent Participationb (n = 133)		All studies (n = 213)
	n	%	n	%	n	%
RCTs providing objective father engagement data
Yes	71	89	11	8	82	38
No	9	11	122	92	131	62
Parental distribution (when reported)
Fathers	871	6	622	32	1493	10
Mothers	12 604	93	1277	65	13 881	89
Other (eg, stepparent)	84	1	73	4	157	1
RCTs reporting specifi c attempts to engage fathers
Yes	1	2	1	1	2	1
No	60	98	132	99	192	99
N/Ac	19	—	0	—	19	—
RCTs noting lack of fathers as possible limitation
Yes	3	4	1	1	4	2
No	76	96	127	99	203	98
N/Ad	1	—	5	—	6	—

^aOnly 1 parent per family participated in the “active” parent component of intervention (eg, parent-child dyad programs).

^bParent component of intervention open to ≥1 parents (eg, family sessions)

^cStudy explicitly excluded fathers (not included in percentages)

^dStudy included >40% fathers (not included in percentages)