Study on the Tailored Intervention Strategy of Childhood Obesity Based on Monitoring Physical Activities and Dietary Behaviors

Wang Jingjing

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pediatric Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Specified nutrition education; Behavioral: General Health Education; Behavioral: Monitoring and Tailored prescription; Behavioral: Happy 10 program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02228434

IRB00001052-10081

Details and patient eligibility

About

The project aims at developing the tailored intervention strategy of childhood obesity based on monitoring physical activities with accelerometer and dietary behaviors using diary. It probably raise the passion of obese children to control weight, form healthy life style, be effective in sustaining weight loss and early prevent adulthood diseases.

Full description

The overweight and obese primary school students from 1-5 grades will be recruited according to "Body Mass Index Reference for Screening Overweight and Obesity in Chinese School-age Children". The participants with will be allocated with schools as the unit to four groups: tailored intervention based on monitoring physical activity and dietary behaviors, exercise intervention group based on the Happy 10 program, nutrition education intervention group. The three intervention groups received the designed interventions for the duration of 1 year. Before and after the intervention, we will carry out a questionnaire survey, a physical measurement, a fitness test, and a metabolic markers detection

Enrollment: 450 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 12 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Overweight and obese children from grade 1-5 primary schools

Exclusion criteria

• Students with any contraindication or physical diseases (heart, Lung, liver, kidney, other vital organs, endocrine diseases and drug side effects et al.) and psychological illnesses that may prevent them from participating in physical activity and eating a normal diet were excluded

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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450 participants in 4 patient groups

Tailored intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

For the monitoring session, physical activity was assessed by accelerometer and dietary was assessed by diary. Based on the monitoring information, the individual tailored prescription, including the normative feedback and process feedback, were formed and delivered to children and parents. Children were encouraged to modify the behaviors according to the prescription. Then, next monitoring circle was followed. In total, 7 monitoring round were completed.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Monitoring and Tailored prescription

Behavioral: General Health Education

Happy 10 exercise group

Experimental group

Description:

All the schools participating in this group were encouraged to take two Happy 10 sessions on each school day.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Happy 10 program

Behavioral: General Health Education

Nutrition education group

Experimental group

Description:

The nutrition intervention was mainly conducted based on the nutrition knowledge through health education lectures given by researchers. The lectures were given for eight times to students and twice to parents. Each lecture session lasted no less than 40 min.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Specified nutrition education

Behavioral: General Health Education

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Receive no intervention