Movement Therapy and Childhood Obesity

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Obesity
• Interventions: Other: exercise plus nutrition; Behavioral: movement therapy

• Registration Number: NCT01555034
• Lead Sponsor: Meir Medical Center

Brief Summary

The Child health and Sports Center, Meir Medical Center, has an intervention program to treat obese children. The program includes physical activity, nutritional intervention and behavioral treatment.The emphasis given in the center to physical activity and sport enables a strong connection with movement therapy. Movement therapy allows obese children to face and cope with the psychological and emotional aspects of obesity.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the contribution of the movement therapy intervention to our program.

Detailed Description

Movement therapy is part of the multidisciplinary intervention. Weekly one hour long sessions are conducted under the guidance of a certified therapists.

The meeting includes physical movement aimed to address the emotional world of the obese child. Using games, structured exercises and verbal processing.

At the start and end of the evaluation the children will answer questionnaires to study:

1. Behavioral questionnaires:emotional state: anxiety, depression, communication, self-esteem, quality of life and self-efficacy.

2. Demographic questions . At the beginning and the end of the program a certified movement therapist will observe the children to estimate the change of emotional movement.weight, height and BMI are measured regularly in the center.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2012-03-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-03-13
• Study First Posted: 2012-03-15
• Study Start: 2012-04
• Status Verified: 2014-03
• Primary Completion: 2015-04
• Study Completion: 2015-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-04-13
• Last Update Posted: 2015-04-14

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 26

Inclusion Criteria

• Overweight/obese children

Exclusion Criteria

• Child that do not want to take part in this study

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
intervention no therapy	exercise plus nutrition	exercise and nutrition
intervention plus therapy	movement therapy	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Emotional/behavioral changes	3 MONTHS	Change from Baseline in emotional and behavioral questioners at 3 months. The questioners: depression, anxiety, self-efficacy, self-esteem, attachment and quality of life.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
weight, height and BMI	3 MONTHS

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Meir Medical Center; 🇮🇱 Kfar-Saba, Israel