Families, Responsibility, Education, Support, and Health for Executive Function

Summary

The pilot study will be a one group open-label treatment program and will be used to refine a parent-based behavioral treatment enhanced with executive-function training (PBT-EF) for children with comorbid overweight or obesity and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

* Child with overweight or obesity (85-99.9% BMI for age),
* Child age 8-12,
* Child with a diagnosis of ADHD,
* A parent willing to participate who can read and understand English at a minimum of a fifth-grade level, able to attend treatment sessions remotely via Zoom on video.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Current enrollment in an organized weight control program (parent and child)
* Medication specifically prescribed for weight loss (child)
* Medical or psychiatric condition that may interfere with treatment participation or that may require physician monitoring of diet and/or exercise (e.g., acute suicidality; psychosis; substance use disorder) (parent and child)
* Change in psychotropic medication or other medication that may impact weight or ADHD symptoms during the previous 3 months (child)

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