Lifestyleintervention for the Treatment of Severe Obesity

Norwegian School of Sport Sciences

Status: Completed

Conditions: Morbid Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Intensive lifestyle intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01675713

KKD1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The overall purpose of this project is to study the acute, short- (≤ 1 year) and long- (> 1 year) term effects on body composition and psychological health after a 10 to 14-weeks comprehensive lifestyle modification program for the treatment of severe obesity.

The aims of the PhD project are to investigate whether an intensive lifestyle intervention leads to acute and short term (< 1 year) changes in:

1. The BMI/Weight
2. Body composition (waist circumference, fat mass, fat free mass, skeletal muscle mass and visceral fat area)
3. Psychosocial factors such as eating behavior, anxiety and depression symptoms and health-related quality of life

Full description

The study is based on data collected from patients at The Hjelp24 NIMI Ringerike Obesity Clinic, which is an inpatient program to address morbid obesity in adults. The study is a non-randomized clinical trial comparing the acute and long-term effects on physical and psychological health of the 10-14-weeks inpatient comprehensive lifestyle modification program for the treatment of morbidly obese patients.

In between the inpatient stay, the patients are followed up either by telephone, occasional mail and/or structured / weekly email.

In this project we prospectively follow two groups of patient included in the treatment programme in September 2010 and January 2011, respectively. In addition a control group with waiting-list patients is also included in the study, and they were recruited in October-November 2011

Enrollment: 149 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• morbidly obese

Exclusion criteria

• not able to walk slowly for 20 minutes

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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149 participants in 2 patient groups

Lifestyle intervention

Experimental group

Description:

10-14 weeks intensive lifestyle intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Intensive lifestyle intervention

Controls

No Intervention group

Description:

No treatment, waiting list