Treatment of Overweight Children and Adolescents

Conditions

Overweight

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.

Reinehr T, Bucksch J, Müller A, Finne E, Kolip P.

2017-08-245 citations

10.1016/j.clnu.2017.08.017

Finne E, Reinehr T, Schaefer A, Winkel K, Kolip P.

2013-06-086 citations

10.1186/1471-2458-13-561

Changes in self-reported and parent-reported health-related quality of life in overweight children and adolescents participating in an outpatient training: findings from a 12-month follow-up study.

Finne E, Reinehr T, Schaefer A, Winkel K, Kolip P.

2013-01-0232 citations

10.1186/1477-7525-11-1

Interventions

BEHAVIORALbehavioral intervention

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

CROSSOVER

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

8 Years to 16 Years

Healthy volunteers

No

Inclusion criteria

* overweight children

Exclusion criteria

* primary disease

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
change of weight status	6 months

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Change of eating and exercise behaviour	6 months
change of quality of life	6 months

Countries

Germany

Outcome results

None listed