Quality of Life and Autonomy in Health of Overweight or Obese People Receiving Reinforced Support

Active, not recruiting

Interventions: Behavioral: Obese or overweight health subjects involved in the X-Ailes program (at least one contact with the health system navigator)

Brief Summary: This mixed-methods prospective cohort study aims to evaluate a recently implemented reinforced support program named "X-ailes program".

The X-Ailes program is a face-to-face or telephone-based support program by health-system navigators/case-managers, funded by the French Ministry of Health (program for empowerment of care users). X-Ales is developed by an patients and public association to support overweight or obese care users facing difficulty to access to care or resources regarding the management of their health situation.

The subjects of the present study are the overweight or obese care-users followed-up by the X-Ailes program.

The aim of the study Eval-X-ailes is to assess the effect of the support program X-Ailes on quality of life, autonomy and literacy of overweight or obese care users at 12 months.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria

People aged 18 or more, male or female
Body mass index equal or over 25
Resident Living in one of the 2 territories covered by the X-ailes program (Lyon Metropolitan Area or Puy-de-Dôme County)
Starting Included in the X-ailes program support (1st phone contact to initiate follow-up)
Not objecting to participating in the evaluation of the X-ailes program

Exclusion Criteria

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Reinforced support: X-ailes program users	Obese or overweight health subjects involved in the X-Ailes program (at least one contact with the health system navigator)	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Quality of life at 12 months, measured by the specific questionnaire Quality of life, Obesity and Dietetics (QOLOD, Ziegler et al. 2005)	month 12	The QOLOD questionnaire is adapted to socio-cultural factors of obesity and dietary weight management in France, and it is validated with satisfactory reliability and reproducibility. It contains 36 items grouped into 5 dimensions: physical impact, psycho-social impact, sex-life impact, comfort with food and diet experience. Answers for each question are expressed on a scale from 1 to 5, where 1 =enormously/all the time (true) and 5 = never/not at all (true). Score vary from 0 to 100. Global and dimension scores evolution will measure during the follow-up.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method

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