Morbid Obesity
Conditions
Keywords
Lifestyle, Physical activity
Brief summary
The overall purpose of this project is to study the acute, short- (≤ 1 year) and long- (\> 1 year) term effects on body composition and psychological health after a 10 to 14-weeks comprehensive lifestyle modification program for the treatment of severe obesity. The aims of the PhD project are to investigate whether an intensive lifestyle intervention leads to acute and short term (\< 1 year) changes in: 1. The BMI/Weight 2. Body composition (waist circumference, fat mass, fat free mass, skeletal muscle mass and visceral fat area) 3. Psychosocial factors such as eating behavior, anxiety and depression symptoms and health-related quality of life
Detailed description
The study is based on data collected from patients at The Hjelp24 NIMI Ringerike Obesity Clinic, which is an inpatient program to address morbid obesity in adults. The study is a non-randomized clinical trial comparing the acute and long-term effects on physical and psychological health of the 10-14-weeks inpatient comprehensive lifestyle modification program for the treatment of morbidly obese patients. In between the inpatient stay, the patients are followed up either by telephone, occasional mail and/or structured / weekly email. In this project we prospectively follow two groups of patient included in the treatment programme in September 2010 and January 2011, respectively. In addition a control group with waiting-list patients is also included in the study, and they were recruited in October-November 2011
Interventions
BEHAVIORALIntensive lifestyle intervention
Lifestyle modification program focusing on increasing physical activity level, adjusting energy intake and learning coping strategies
Sponsors
Hjelp24
Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* morbidly obese
Exclusion criteria
* not able to walk slowly for 20 minutes
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Acute and short term (12 months) effects of an intensive 10 to 14-weeks inpatient program with lifestyle modification for the treatment of morbidly obese patients on body composition and psychosocial health | three years |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Health related quality of life | Week 10-14 | Change in Health related quality of life from baseline |
| Binge Eating | Week 10-14 | Change in binge eating from baseline |
| Binge eating | Week 26 | Change in binge eating from baseline |
| Anxiety | Week 10-14 | Change in anxiety from baseline |
| Depression | Week 10-14 | Change in depression from baseline |
| Physical Activity | Week 10-14 | Change in physical activity from baseline |
| Body composition | Week 10-14 | Change in body composition (body weight, fat mass, fat free mass, visceral fat area) from baseline |
| Physical fitness | Week 10-14 | Change in physical fitness from baseline |
| Systolic Blood Pressure | Week 10-14 | Change in Systolic Blood Pressure |
| Lipids | Week 10-14 | Change in lipids (Total cholestrol, LDL cholestrol, HDL cholestrol and Triglycerides) from baseline |
| Glucose | Week 10-14 | Change in glucose from baseline |
| Explore the participants experiences with physical activity prior to, during and after the treatment programme | 2-3 years post treatment | In depth interviews |
| Physical activity | Week 26 | Change in physical activity from baseline |
Countries
Norway
Outcome results
None listed