Childhood obesity, more specifically the maintenance of weight loss after therapy. Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine Obesity
Conditions
Interventions
1. Approach Avoidance (AA)-Training. An AA game training was developed, based on the AA task (an adaptation of Wiers, Rinck, Kordts, Houben, and Strack (2010), and used to re-train the children’s appr
Sponsors
Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT) of Flanders
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Primary obesity (minimum 60% overweight at intake for obesity treatment in the clinic) 2. Aged between 10 and 15 years 3. IQ within the normal range as measured with the Raven Progressive Matrices (RPM; Raven, 1938)
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. IQ outside the normal range as measured with the Raven Progressive Matrices (RPM; Raven, 1938) 2. Presence of pervasive developmental disorders
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Weight loss maintenance at 3 months follow up. The Body Mass Index (BMI) (weight/height²) is determined for each child entering the clinic (admission), one week before the start of the intervention (pre-training), one week after the start of the intervention (post-training), and 12 weeks follow up. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Changes in action tendencies, measured using an Approach Avoidance Task (AAT) measured one week before the start of the intervention (pre-) and one week after the start of the intervention (post-) 2. Changes in attentional bias, measured using a Visual Probe Task (VPT) at pre- and post intervention 3. Changes in children's implicit pleasant and unpleasant associations of unhealthy food, measured using a single category implicit association task (SC-IAT) at pre- and post intervention 4. Changes in craving, measured using self-report questionnaires (G-FCQ-S and G-FCQ-T) at pre- and post intervention | — |
Countries
Belgium
Contacts
Public ContactSandra Verbeken
Outcome results
None listed