Treatment of Overweight Children and Adolescents

University of Witten/Herdecke

Status: Completed

Conditions: Overweight

Treatments: Behavioral: behavioral intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00422916

GFEL011174505

Details and patient eligibility

About

The intervention program "Obeldicks light" is developed for overweight children aged 8-16 years. This intervention is gender - and age specific.

The 6-month intervention is based on nutrition course, behaviour therapy and exercise therapy. The evaluation compromised quality of structure, process and results of the intervention. 300 participants in a randomised controlled group design will be evaluated at 4 time points: baseline, end of intervention, 6 months after end of intervention and 12 months after end of intervention.Primary outcome measure is change of weight status as standard deviation score of BMI. Drop-outs will be interviewed to improve the intervention.

Enrollment: 66 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 16 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• overweight children

Exclusion criteria

• primary disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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66 participants in 2 patient groups

intervention arm

Experimental group

Description:

Lifestyle Intervention based on Nutrition Treatment, exercise Treatment and behavorial treatment

Treatment:

Behavioral: behavioral intervention

waiting list

No Intervention group

Description:

waiting 6 months for Intervention without any intervention