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Study on the Tailored Intervention Strategy of Childhood Obesity Based on Monitoring Physical Activities and Dietary Behaviors

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Pediatric Obesity
Interventions
Behavioral: Monitoring and Tailored prescription
Behavioral: Specified nutrition education
Behavioral: Happy 10 program
Behavioral: General Health Education
Registration Number
NCT02228434
Lead Sponsor
Wang Jingjing
Brief Summary

The project aims at developing the tailored intervention strategy of childhood obesity based on monitoring physical activities with accelerometer and dietary behaviors using diary. It probably raise the passion of obese children to control weight, form healthy life style, be effective in sustaining weight loss and early prevent adulthood diseases.

Detailed Description

The overweight and obese primary school students from 1-5 grades will be recruited according to "Body Mass Index Reference for Screening Overweight and Obesity in Chinese School-age Children". The participants with will be allocated with schools as the unit to four groups: tailored intervention based on monitoring physical activity and dietary behaviors, exercise intervention group based on the Happy 10 program, nutrition education intervention group. The three intervention groups received the designed interventions for the duration of 1 year. Before and after the intervention, we will carry out a questionnaire survey, a physical measurement, a fitness test, and a metabolic markers detection

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
450
Inclusion Criteria
  • Overweight and obese children from grade 1-5 primary schools
Exclusion Criteria
  • Students with any contraindication or physical diseases (heart, Lung, liver, kidney, other vital organs, endocrine diseases and drug side effects et al.) and psychological illnesses that may prevent them from participating in physical activity and eating a normal diet were excluded

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Tailored intervention groupMonitoring and Tailored prescriptionFor the monitoring session, physical activity was assessed by accelerometer and dietary was assessed by diary. Based on the monitoring information, the individual tailored prescription, including the normative feedback and process feedback, were formed and delivered to children and parents. Children were encouraged to modify the behaviors according to the prescription. Then, next monitoring circle was followed. In total, 7 monitoring round were completed.
Tailored intervention groupGeneral Health EducationFor the monitoring session, physical activity was assessed by accelerometer and dietary was assessed by diary. Based on the monitoring information, the individual tailored prescription, including the normative feedback and process feedback, were formed and delivered to children and parents. Children were encouraged to modify the behaviors according to the prescription. Then, next monitoring circle was followed. In total, 7 monitoring round were completed.
Nutrition education groupSpecified nutrition educationThe nutrition intervention was mainly conducted based on the nutrition knowledge through health education lectures given by researchers. The lectures were given for eight times to students and twice to parents. Each lecture session lasted no less than 40 min.
Happy 10 exercise groupHappy 10 programAll the schools participating in this group were encouraged to take two Happy 10 sessions on each school day.
Happy 10 exercise groupGeneral Health EducationAll the schools participating in this group were encouraged to take two Happy 10 sessions on each school day.
Nutrition education groupGeneral Health EducationThe nutrition intervention was mainly conducted based on the nutrition knowledge through health education lectures given by researchers. The lectures were given for eight times to students and twice to parents. Each lecture session lasted no less than 40 min.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Change in body mass indexBaseline, 1-year post-intervention
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Change of biomarkers for disease riskBaseline, 1-year post-intervention
Change of attitude, knowledge, and behaviors on dietary and physical activityBaseline, 1-year post-intervention
Change in obesity-related anthropometric measurementsBaseline, 1-year post-intervention
Change of blood pressureBaseline, 1-year post-intervention

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Insitute of Child and Adolescent Health, Peking University

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Beijing, China

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