Prediction of Weight Gain by Children and Adolescents

Completed

• Conditions: Overweight; Obesity

• Registration Number: NCT01111812
• Lead Sponsor: Meir Medical Center

Brief Summary

The 'Meir children's sport and health center' runs a multi-disciplinary intervention program for the treatment of overweight and obese children and adolescents. The program includes physical activity, dietary guidelines, medical supervision and behavioral treatment. The participants are routinely weighed once a week, at the same day and time, in order to supervise their progress. According to our experience, the child can predict his weight change, based on his "behavior" in the previous week. To our knowledge the overweight/obese child's ability to predict his weekly weight change, while participating in a multi-disciplinary intervention program, has never been tested.

Detailed Description

The aim of this study is to examine whether a child participating in a multi-disciplinary intervention program for treatment of the overweight and obese in Meir medical center, can predict his weight change during intervention before the actual weighing.

This study will include 1000 weight measurements of children and adolescents, boys and girls, ages 5-18 years. A patient might be measured several times.

The data will be collected during 6 mounts. in this period the program participants will be asked, discretely, before being weighed if, in there opinion, they had lost or gained weight in the past week, and how mach and why.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2010-04-26
• Study First Submitted QC: 2010-04-26
• Study First Posted: 2010-04-28
• Study Start: 2011-01
• Primary Completion: 2017-06
• Status Verified: 2017-11
• Study Completion: 2017-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-11-19
• Last Update Posted: 2017-11-21

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 530

Inclusion Criteria

• Overweight and obese children and adolescence
• Boys and girls
• Ages 5-18
• That taking pat in a multi-disciplinary intervention program for treatment of the overweight and obese in Meir medical center

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Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Participants will be able to predict their weight change	6 months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

'Meir children's sport and health center'; 🇮🇱 Kfar-Saba, Israel