Maintenance Programme After Weight Loss

University of Helsinki

Status: Completed

Conditions: Weight Loss; Morbid Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: weight loss programme with maintenance programme; Behavioral: weight loss programme

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NETWORK

Identifiers

NCT00590655

231410

Finnish Medical Foundation

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to compare a weight reduction programme with and without a maintenance programme in patients with severe obesity.

Enrollment: 201 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• BMI 35 kg/m2 or more
• Age 18-65 years

Exclusion criteria

• Type 1 diabetes
• Major alcohol problem
• Acute psychic disease, eating behavior, pregnancy, severe disease (cancer, unstable coronary disease, severe liver or kidney disease), or the patient has been in this treatment within the past 5 years

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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201 participants in 2 patient groups

2

Active Comparator group

Description:

Treatment B includes a four month weight loss programme (10 weeks on a VLED and 17 weeks behavior modification visits). Treatment lasts 17 weeks and after that there will be one and two year control visits including weighing and questionnaires for eating behavior and quality of life.

Treatment:

Behavioral: weight loss programme

1

Experimental group

Description:

Treatment includes a four month weight loss programme (10 weeks on a VLED and 17 weeks behavior modification visits). After that a maintenance programme starts with monthly sessions for one year. Weight loss, quality of life, and eating behavior will be assessed at the end of the maintenance program and one year later.

Treatment:

Behavioral: weight loss programme with maintenance programme