Cue Exposure Training for Overweight Children

Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC)

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Overweight; Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Psycho-education; Behavioral: Food cue exposure

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01796340

METC 13-2-009

NWO (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary objective of the study is to investigate the effectiveness of two intensive two-session trainings, the conventional psycho-education and food cue exposure, on eating in the absence of hunger, binge eating and Body Mass Index (BMI) change in overweight/ obese children.

Enrollment: 14 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being a patient in the Maastricht University Medical Center COACH unit for obese children and adolescents.
• Overweight, according to the sex and age specific cut-off point for overweight in children, as defined by Cole and colleagues (2000).
• Age: 12 - 18 years

Exclusion criteria

• Not being overweight (anymore, due to weight loss)
• Not able to speak and/or write Dutch

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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14 participants in 2 patient groups

Food cue exposure

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Food cue exposure

Psycho-education

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Psycho-education