Obesity and Psychotherapy as an Alternative to Treatment

Feevale

Status: Completed

Conditions: Therapy; Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Group Psychotherapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01023126

972833

Details and patient eligibility

About

Adherence to obesity treatment programs has been a limiting factor to good results in loosing weight. This study aimed to verify if obese subjects submitted to a physical exercise program and group psychotherapy would have a greater adherence, than obese people exercising only.

Full description

The sample was forty people, both genders, mean age: 42,2 ± 10,7 years old. Physical exercise consisted of walking and stretching three times a week, during 50 minutes, with intensity verified by the Borg Scale, during three months. One of the days were supervised by the authors while two were freely chosen by the participant, without supervision. The verified variables were: total body mass, height, body mass index, physical activity level, caloric expenditure, waist circumference and fat percentile. Half of the sample participated of group psychotherapy once weekly.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 62 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• BMI >= 30 kg/m2

Exclusion criteria

• Age less than 25 or more than 62

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

EO

No Intervention group

Description:

Exercise three times a week, one under supervision and two freely chosen by the participant

EGT

Experimental group

Description:

Exercise three times a week, one under supervision and two freely chosen by the participant

Treatment:

Behavioral: Group Psychotherapy