Parental Involvement Improves the Effect of Motivational Interviewing on Weight Loss in Obese Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial Study

Qazvin University Of Medical Sciences

Status

Completed

Conditions

Obesity, Adolescent

Treatments

Behavioral: motivational interviewing with parental involvement

Behavioral: motivational interviewing

Behavioral: Control group

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02180802

3287

Details and patient eligibility

About

Motivational interviewing (MI) has been shown to be an effective strategy in targeting obesity in adolescents and parental involvement has been associated with increased effectiveness. The aim of the study is to evaluate and compare the role of parental involvement in MI interventions for obese adolescents

Enrollment

408 patients

Sex

All

Ages

13 to 18 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

BMI equal or higher than 95th percentile for age and gender
13-18 years old

Exclusion criteria

medication with weight gain as side effects
diagnosed with having eating disorder
pregnant
clinical mental health conditions
psychosis

Trial design

Primary purpose

Prevention

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

408 participants in 3 patient groups

motivational intervieing group

Experimental group

Description:

The behavioral intervention targets were improved eating and physical activity behavior in order to reduce obesity levels. Each adolescent was encouraged to eat a variety of foods from each of the four major food groups and low-fat alternatives . Moreover, each adolescent was encouraged to achieve at least 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity daily as recommended by the World Health Organization

Treatment:

Behavioral: motivational interviewing

motivational interviewi group with parental involvement

Experimental group

Description:

an additional single session with parents or guardians over 60 minutes in the clinic

Treatment:

Behavioral: motivational interviewing with parental involvement

Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

The patients received routine care