Development of Eating Disorders Symptoms Among Children

Tel Hai College

Status: Completed

Conditions: Eating Disorders Symptoms

Treatments: Behavioral: obesity treatment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02624713

telhaicollege

Details and patient eligibility

About

Randomized Clinical Trial, the research will be composed of two parts in order to examine the research question: a combination of controlled randomized retrospective research and prospective cohort research

Prospective Cohort Research:

The research groups - families coming for treatment in "Active Maccabi" clinics in the Northern Region, Israel. Approximately 30 families.

Retrospective Random Controlled Research

1. The research group - families that have completed an intervention program of "Active Maccabi" Northern Region, Israel,within the past two to three years. The families will be requested to attend a follow-up meeting of all family members in which they will answer questionnaires. Approximately 66 families.
2. The control groups - families who did not participate in the program who have a child between the age 7-14 who has suffered from obesity/weight (over the past 2-3 years), in correlation with the child in the intervention group. Approximately 66 families.

Hypotheses of the research:

1. Status of the weight of the child being treated and of his siblings will be higher than that at the end of the program.
2. Indication of the obesogenic environment of families participating in the program will be lower in comparison with families not participating in the program.
3. The rate of eating disorder symptoms among children who participated in the program will be lower in comparison with those of the obese/overweight child in families who were not the program.
4. The rate of eating disorder symptoms among siblings who participated in the program will be lower than that of siblings in families not in the program.

Full description

Duration of the Research -Prospective Cohort Research: 6 months of intervention. 8 months follow-up.

Research Instruments

1. Anthropometric measurements of all children in the family (height, weight and BMI). BMI per centile examinations according to age.
2. An acquaintance questionnaire and demographic details - to be answered by parents
3. A FEAQ_R questionnaire to be answered by the parents (only in the prospective research group). The questionnaire will examine the obesogenic burden in the family. A column will be added for each sibling of relevant age. The questionnaire will be valid in English and Hebrew. The psychometric characteristics of the questionnaire: Alpha cronbach - validity 0.84; Reliability 0.78 Trt
4. Eat-26 (cheat) questionnaire to be answered by the children and their siblings. The questionnaire will examine the risk of developing an eating disorder.

Enrollment: 159 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Families who participated in "Active Maccabi
2. Families who signed a consent form
3. Families who attended 80% of the sessions

Exclusion criteria

1. Families who don't fill in questionnaires at all stages of the research
2. Families in which the parents refuse to sign a consent form
3. Families in the control group who receive treatment in more than three sessions by a dietician in the community

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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159 participants in 2 patient groups

Retrospective Random Controlled Research

Other group

Description:

In the controlled retrospective follow up, (not random) 44 families participated with their 81 children and siblings. The intervention group included 18 families who participated in the "Maccabi Active" program (obesity treatment) in the years 2012-2013 in the northern district, with their 24 children (18 overweight children and 6 siblings). The control group included 26 families with their 57 children (27 children who had been overweight or obese in the years 2012-2013 when they were 8-14 years old and their 30 siblings). These families did not take part in a family based treatment for their overweight child. The parameters were measured at one set point time. All participants from both the control and research groups were evaluated at the follow-up and the data collected at follow-up is being reported collectively for the Retrospective Controlled Research branch.

Treatment:

Behavioral: obesity treatment

The Prospective study

Other group

Description:

The Prospective study had only an intervention group (obesity treatment). Forty-two families took part in this study, with 78 children: 48 overweight children and 30 siblings . The parameters were measured in three different times. Before the program (time 1), at the end of the program (after 6 months - time 2) and 8 months after completing the program (time 3).

Treatment:

Behavioral: obesity treatment