The Effect of Movement Therapy on the Success in a Multidisciplinary Intervention for the Treatment of Childhood Obesity
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 26
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Emotional/behavioral changes
研究概览
简要总结
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.
详细描述
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:
- Behavioral questionnaires:emotional state: anxiety, depression, communication, self-esteem, quality of life and self-efficacy.
- 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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 6 Years 至 18 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Overweight/obese children
排除标准
- •Child that do not want to take part in this study
研究组 & 干预措施
intervention plus therapy
干预措施: movement therapy (Behavioral)
intervention no therapy
exercise and nutrition
干预措施: exercise plus nutrition (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Emotional/behavioral changes
时间窗: 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.
次要结局
- weight, height and BMI(3 MONTHS)