Preliminary Evaluation Study of Therapeutic Education on Overweight People in Addition to a Hydrotherapeutic Cure
- Conditions
- Obesity
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Therapeutic education
- Registration Number
- NCT02284776
- Lead Sponsor
- Institut Pasteur de Lille
- Brief Summary
The goal of this study is to assess the effect of a therapeutic education program in addition of a hydrotherapeutic cure on obese patients.
The therapeutic education program at the thermal baths of Brides-les-Bains is composed of a dietary follow-up, a physical activities program, working group.
- Detailed Description
The participants are people that come to the thermal baths in order to follow an hydrotherapeutic cure (of about 3 weeks). For the Action group, they also follow a course of therapeutic education where they are given advices on how they should eat and have a regular physical activity.
This therapeutic education in addition of the hydrotherapeutic cure should help them lose weight and not gain in again.
The participants are followed for 18 months (17 months after leaving the thermal baths).
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 400
- Body Mass Index (BMI) over 27 kg/m² (or equal)
- Has a valid email address, has access to the internet and to a telephone line
- Has a domestic scale compatible with its weight
- Signed the consent form
- Susceptible to accept the obligations generated by the study
- Has a health insurance
- Has a progressive illness at the time of the study (cancer, neurodegenerative disease...)
- Is pregnant
- Follows the hydro-therapeutic cure in order to cure rheumatism
- Trying to lose weight prior to a surgery
- Has a diagnosed eating disorder
- Has no physical activity due to a handicap or a serious osteoarthritis
- Has taken a weight-loss drug (Orlistat) in the past month or will likely do so in the future
- Is taking a Desmopressin-based drug
- Is unable to understand or follow the protocol
- Is deprived of liberty
- Is under judicial protection
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Action Therapeutic education People in hydrotherapeutic cure are following a program of Therapeutic Education. This program includes dietary advice, physical activities, behavior advice in order to change the lifestyle of the obese people.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in the weight between the end of the hydrotherapeutic cure and 5 months after the hydrotherapeutic cure People's weight in between the end of hydrotherapeutic cure and 5 months after hydrotherapeutic cure People weight themselves on a domestic scale.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Evolution of the weight. 0 ; 3 weeks ; 6 months ; 12 months ; 18 months People weight themselves on a domestic scale.
Quality of life 0 ; 3 weeks ; 6 months ; 12 months Assessed with the Short SF-36 questionnaire.
Physical activity 0 ; 3 weeks ; 6 months ; 12 months Assessed with the Ricci-Gagnon questionnaire.
Individual's readiness to change 0 ; 3 weeks ; 6 months ; 12 months Assessed with the Prochaska questionnaire.
Visual and analogical scale for general and psychological well-being and body discomfort. 0 ; 3 weeks ; 6 months ; 12 months Participants mark down on a 10cm scale how they feel.
Felling about the body 0 ; 3 weeks ; 6 months ; 12 months Questionnaire on how the participants feel about their body.
Dietary habits 0 ; 3 weeks ; 6 months ; 12 months Questionnaire about the dietary habits of the participants.
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
SET Brides-les-Bains
🇫🇷Brides-les-Bains, Savoir, France