Prevention of Weight Gain in University Students (PGP2)

Marie-France Hivert

Status: Completed

Conditions: Prevention; Weight Gain

Treatments: Behavioral: Lifestyle intervention seminars

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00995462

05-025

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study assess whether a small-group seminar intervention to prevent weight gain is effective in a general university student population, and to address the relative role of biological vs. lifestyle factors in predicting weight gain in humans.

Enrollment: 319 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• First year students at the Université de Sherbrooke.

Exclusion criteria

• Presence of diseases or medications that would be expected to affect weight (cystic fibrosis, diabetes, inflammatory bowel diseases, anorexia nervosa, bulimia, etc.).
• Pregnancy or planning a pregnancy in the next two years.
• Unable to give an informed consent.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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319 participants in 3 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Small-group seminar for 2 years

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Lifestyle intervention seminars

Small-group seminars for 1 year followed by email intervention

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Lifestyle intervention seminars