Feasibility and efficacy of a weight maintenance treatment approach for adolescent obesity via telephone counseling following an obesity treatment program: a randomized controlled trial
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- E66.9Obesity, unspecified
- Registration Number
- DRKS00004583
- Lead Sponsor
- Integriertes Forschungs- und Behandlungszentrum (IFB) AdipositasErkrankungen, Universität Leipzig
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 100
Inclusion Criteria
adolescents aged 14-18 years, completion of a structured inpatient obesity therapy program (reconvalescent care), Informed consent of parents or guardians and of adolescents themselves into participation
Exclusion Criteria
current involvement in weight loss treatment, psychiatric conditions interfering with participation (e.g. eating disorder, psychosis), medication interfering with participation or weight maintenance, underlying chronic disease interfering with weight maintenance
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The primary outcome is BMI-SDS. Study visits, performed by trained medical staff, include one baseline visit (T0), after written agreement into participation and prior to randomization, and one closing visit after the end of intervention (T1) and two follow up visits (12 and 24 months after randomization (T2+T3)) for both groups (i.e. intervention and control group) to determine baseline and endpoint data.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Both groups are asked to complete questionnaires (at T0, T1, T2 and T3) in order to obtain data on socio-demography, psychosocial status (KIDSCREEN, self image scale), daily physical activity, leisure time habits (MoMo Questionnaire), and eating behavior (DEBQ-K, FFQ) as well as on usage of health services (EQ-5D).