Personal Activity Trackers and Family Engagement in a Pediatric Obesity Intervention: Randomized Controlled Trial

Juan Carlos Espinoza Salomon   ^{1, 2 *} , MD ;   Mahsa Babaei   ³ , PhD ;   Alexis Deavenport-Saman   ^{3, 4} , DrPH ;   Olga Solomon   ^{4, 5 *} , PhD ;   Choo Phei Wee   ⁶ , MS ;   Ramon Durazo-Arvizu   ^{4, 7} , PhD ;   Abu Sikder   ⁵ , BS ;   Payal Shah   ⁵ , MS ;   Patricia Castillo   ^{4, 5} , MD ;   Larry Yin   ^{4, 5 *} , MD

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Ann & Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

² Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States

³ Department of Anesthesiology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States

⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States

⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

⁶ Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States

⁷ Biostatistics and Data Analysis Core, The Saban Research Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

*these authors contributed equally