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Volume
6: No. 4, October 2009
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Randomized Controlled Trial of a Mailed Toolkit to Increase Use of Body Mass Index Percentiles to Screen for Childhood Obesity
Age of Child, y |
Baseline Survey |
Follow-Up Survey |
Intervention, % |
Control, % |
Intervention, % |
Control, % |
2-5 |
26 |
27 |
39 |
29 |
6-11 |
31 |
32 |
45 |
35 |
12-20 |
37 |
36 |
51 |
43 |
Figure 2. Percentage of New York State physicians who
reported routine (always or most of the time) use of body mass index-for-age
percentiles to screen for childhood obesity, by children’s age group.
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