The Role of Parents in Adolescent Weight Loss

Lifespan

Status: Completed

Conditions: Adolescent Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Behavioral Weight Control with Minimal Parent Involvement; Behavioral: Behavioral Weight Control with Enhanced Parent Involvement

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01139411

R03HD060137 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

GRANT00538804

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to determine whether a novel model of including parents in adolescent weight control results in greater decrease in adolescent z-BMI compared to an intervention with minimal parent involvement.

Enrollment: 49 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 17 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Between 30 and 90% overweight
• Parent or guardian willing to participate

Exclusion criteria

• Major psychiatric disorder

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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49 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Behavioral Weight Control with Enhanced Parent Involvement

Experimental group

Description:

This treatment arm included periodic dyadic sessions with adolescents and their parents, focusing on weight-related communication combined with standard behavioral weight control.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Behavioral Weight Control with Enhanced Parent Involvement

Behavioral Weight Control with Minimal Parent Involvement

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

This treatment arm included standard behavioral weight control delivered to the adolescent with minimal parent involvement.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Behavioral Weight Control with Minimal Parent Involvement