A FAMILY Program for Childhood Overweight and Obesity

National Taiwan University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Overweight and Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Behavioral intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03773250

201603121RIND

Details and patient eligibility

About

Childhood overweight and obesity is a health problem with lifelong implications related to diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, psychological disorders as well as other chronic conditions.

Full description

In Taiwan, the nationwide prevalence of overweight and obesity among school-age children aged 7 to 11 years has also increased over the past years. Sleep and weight are intricately related. School-age children requires at least 10 hours of sleep per night but children in Asian countries are on average obtaining shorter sleep than children in Caucasian countries.

Enrollment: 164 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 8 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children with overweight and obesity

Exclusion criteria

• Children with any other chronic or acute medical conditions

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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164 participants in 2 patient groups

Behavioral Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Children and families in the intervention group will received the FAMILY program developed according to evidence-based guidelines.The intervention content regarding healthy sleep will emphasize the importance of having a consistent sleep schedule, establishing a regular bedtime routine, and creating an environment only for sleeping. The physical activity content will emphasize at least 60 minutes/day of moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity, reduction of sedentary behavior, and screen time limited to 2 hours/day. The nutrition content will emphasis the replacement of sugar-sweetened beverages, increased fruit and vegetable as well as water intake, consumption of regular meals, and reduction of discretionary food groups.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Behavioral intervention

Control

Other group

Description:

An active placebo control intervention was designed which did not apply evidence-based lifestyle recommendations effective in weight loss and focused on vegetable education.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Behavioral intervention