The Effect of ObeseGO! Towards Adolescent Obesity

National University of Malaysia (UKM)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Adolescent Behavioral Change

Treatments: Behavioral: Pamphlets material; Behavioral: ObeseGO!

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02360553

azmawati

Details and patient eligibility

About

Adolescents nowadays is having most of their times other than school hours spending on screen by playing games, watching the movies and surfing the internet. Thus, it was suggested that Internet-based interventions have the potential for establishing healthy dietary style and physical activity that may persist in adulthood and reduce the risk of chronic disease. Preventing adolescent obesity requires an attitude of willingness by adolescents to implement healthy behaviors. By providing the health related activities in website, it would help the adolescents to spend time on screen by having something which can benefit them and improve their knowledge and attitudes.

Full description

This study done in improving the health promotion in Malaysia. It will be an evidenced in creating the most effective way in creating the awareness among adolescent. By having an effective health promotion it will help in reducing the prevalence of obesity and improving health among adolescents hence will reducing the comorbidities among adulthood.

Enrollment: 47 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Students aged of 16 years old (adolescents) in secondary school in Kuala Lumpur who have BMI of more than 25 kg/m2, have one guardian or parent who willing to join the study and having access to internet at home were then selected to join this study

Exclusion criteria

• those who are having existing medical condition and having weight loss more than 2 kg in last two months

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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47 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

ObeseGO!-web-based intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: ObeseGO!

Control

Other group

Description:

Given pamphlets education mainly on diet and physical activity

Treatment:

Behavioral: Pamphlets material