Enhancing the Amount of Physical Activity Carried Out by Overweight Children at Leisure Time

Clalit Health Services

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Pedometer without supervision; Behavioral: Pedometer with supervision

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01534091

MeirMc02711CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to examine if internet supervised by pedometer will contribute to enhance the amount of physical activity at leisure time by obese children.

The investigators hypothesize that using pedometer will increase the amount of physical activity done by obese children in the afternoon and will improve the likelihood of success in the intervention program.

Full description

Childhood overweight & obesity is the most common chronic disease in the western society. The prevalence of childhood obesity in Israel is among the highest in Europe. Recent data suggest that the recommended treatment for childhood obesity should be intense, multi-disciplinary intervention, including dietary, behavioral and physical activity components. Such a program exists at the Meir Medical Center in Israel for a few years with promising results.

The program includes: physical activity(PA)exercise (twice a week/1h), dietary guidance, medical supervision and behavioral intervention. The participants are asked to enhance PA at their leisure time, and to report to their coaches. Yet, the amount of time they actually exercise is not controled by us.

This study will include 3 groups of overweight& obese children:

1. Intervention with pedometers and supervision.
2. Intervention with pedometer without supervision.
3. Control. Obese and overweight children not taking part in a treatment program.

Enrollment: 25 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• overweight/obese children
• age 5-18
• boys and girls

Exclusion criteria

• children with genetic obesity or obesity cased by a disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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25 participants in 3 patient groups

Pedometer with supervision

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants will get pedometers to evaluate their daily PA. The sport center stuff will review the child weekly reports, guide the child, encourage him and supervise that the recommended PA level is achieved.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Pedometer with supervision

Pedometer without supervision

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants will get pedometers to evaluate their daily PA. The sport center stuff won't give any recommendation or supervision for PA level.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Pedometer without supervision

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Overweight \& obese children not participating in an intervention.