Treatment of Overweight Children and Adolescents
- 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
- overweight children
- primary disease
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- CROSSOVER
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description intervention arm behavioral intervention Lifestyle Intervention based on Nutrition Treatment, exercise Treatment and behavorial treatment
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method change of weight status 6 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change of eating and exercise behaviour 6 months change of quality of life 6 months
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Vestische Youth Hospital
🇩🇪Datteln, Germany