Interdisciplinary Intervention in Patients With Obesity and Other Metabolic Diseases

Federal University of São Paulo

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Interdisciplinary Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02573688

LIDM-2014-GEO

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the research study will be assess the effectiveness of a long-term interdisciplinary lifestyle in many aspects including food intake, psychological symptoms, physical activity habits, energy expenditure, body composition and anthropometric measurements in adults obese.

Full description

Participants will be recruited after dissemination of the program in the local media and internet.

They will go through a short interview to evaluate inclusion and exclusion criteria. Thus, all obese adults will be submitted to an interdisciplinary lifestyle modification therapy according the inclusion criteria.

The interdisciplinary therapy will consist of nutritional, physical exercise, psychological and physiotherapy support during the course of one year, according the literature the investigators promote a long term therapy to control obesity and metabolic diseases.

The participants will be evaluated at baseline and after the therapy in accordance with Ethical guidelines.

The main purpose of this therapy is to enhance the quality of life of the participants promoting an active lifestyle and quality of life, adherence a healthy nutritional habits and a healthy weight loss.

Our focus will be on teaching strategies to maintain a healthy life style behaviors after therapy, our protocol is in agreement with public health field in this way.

Enrollment: 87 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 30 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age from 30 to 50 years and body mass index (BMI) between 30 and 39.9 Kg/m2

Exclusion criteria

• Musculoskeletal limitations preventing the practice of physical exercise, other metabolic or endocrine diseases, identified genetic diseases, pregnancy, previous drug utilization and excessive chronic alcohol consumption

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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87 participants in 1 patient group

Interdisciplinary Therapy

Experimental group

Description:

The Therapy includes: Physical Exercise (three times week - 180 minutes); Nutrition, Psychology, Physiotherapy (once a week - 60 minutes each one)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Interdisciplinary Therapy