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Treatment of Overweight Children and Adolescents

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Overweight
Interventions
Behavioral: behavioral intervention
Registration Number
NCT00422916
Lead Sponsor
University of Witten/Herdecke
Brief Summary

The intervention program "Obeldicks light" is developed for overweight children aged 8-16 years. This intervention is gender - and age specific.

The 6-month intervention is based on nutrition course, behaviour therapy and exercise therapy. The evaluation compromised quality of structure, process and results of the intervention. 300 participants in a randomised controlled group design will be evaluated at 4 time points: baseline, end of intervention, 6 months after end of intervention and 12 months after end of intervention.Primary outcome measure is change of weight status as standard deviation score of BMI. Drop-outs will be interviewed to improve the intervention.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
66
Inclusion Criteria
  • overweight children
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Exclusion Criteria
  • primary disease
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Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
CROSSOVER
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
intervention armbehavioral interventionLifestyle Intervention based on Nutrition Treatment, exercise Treatment and behavorial treatment
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
change of weight status6 months
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Change of eating and exercise behaviour6 months
change of quality of life6 months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Vestische Youth Hospital

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Datteln, Germany

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