Obesity Intervention Program for University Students

Selcuk University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Protective Nursing Interventions for Reduction Obesity Risk

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03115229

15102038

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to determine the effect of preventive nursing interventions, which consist of education / practices including of healthy eating and physical activity and motivational messages which sent through social media to reduce obesity risk in university students who in the risk group for obesity.

Full description

This study has been conducted with University students in Turkey. The selected 70 students were associated with obesity risk factors about obesity (owerveight or normal weight and they were in the risk group in terms of obesity according to the risk rating scales, and between 19-24 years old) and randomly assigned to the experimental (35 students) and control group (35 students). Applications for the experimental group for 11 weeks about nutritional habits, practices for physical activity, and motivational messages sent via social media.

Primary Outcome Measure: Nutrition-Exercise Attitude Score, Nutrition-Exercise Behavior Score, Exercise Benefit / Obstacle Score. We used some scales for evaluate the primary outcomes (The Scale of Nutrition-Exercise Attitude-Behavior, The Scale of Exercise Benefit / Obstacle).

Bady Mass Index, Waist / Hip Ratio and Body fat percentage are secondary outcomes.

The data was calculated with SPSS package program.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19 to 24 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Preobezes between 25.0-29.9 BMI
• The BMI is 18.5-24.9 and who get above the average score (24-36 points high risk) from the "Risky Behavior Scale University Form: the subscale of nutritional habits
• The BMI is 18.5-24.9 and who get below the mean score (8-20 points high risk) from the Healthy Lifestyle Behavior Scale's subscale of Exercise

Exclusion criteria

• BMI below 18.5 and above 29.9
• Constantly regular drug users
• Those who have any health problems (who have had a heart attack, angioplasty or any surgical operation within 3 months, those with heart failure, those with metabolic disease, those with eating disorder, those with cancer, those with any psychological disease, Physically disabled)
• Those who are pregnant
• Those who have participated in any weight management program at least 2 months in advance and are still involved in the nutrition or physical activity program

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group of the RCT was composed of 35 students randomly assigned to the control group who are BMI was between 25.0-29.9 or BMI was between 18.5-24.9 and they were in the risk group in terms of obesity according to the risk rating scales.

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

The selected students were associated with obesity risk factors about obesity (owerveight or normal weight and they were in the risk group in terms of obesity according to the risk rating scales, and between 19-24 years old) and randomly assigned to the experimental group to Protective Nursing Interventions for Reduction Obesity Risk

Treatment:

Behavioral: Protective Nursing Interventions for Reduction Obesity Risk