Managing Adolescent Obesity at Local Level by Combining Primary and Secondary Intervention (PAAPAS-DC)

Rio de Janeiro State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Intervention group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02711488

IMS-PAAPAS-project

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of the project is to develop, implement and evaluate a prevention program for obesity among adolescents in Brazil combining the primary care health system implemented in the country in recent decades with primary prevention at schools.

Full description

The study will combine primary prevention activities at the school level with secondary prevention at the household level, both focusing on behavior strategies such as mindfulness, reduction of eating rate; eating with others at a dinning table; healthy eating, increasing physical activity and reducing sedentary lifestyle habits.

Enrollment: 3,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 9 to 15 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Both prevention programs
• 5th and 6th grades students
• consent form signed by parents/tutors
• Secondary prevention program
• Overweight and obese children

Exclusion criteria

• pregnant girls

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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3,000 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Combine primary prevention activities at the school level with secondary prevention at the household level

Treatment:

Behavioral: Intervention group

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention