Obesity
Conditions
Interventions
G1 – Complete experimental group (n=13). It involved 20 meetings with the adolescents divided into 16 for the psychological intervention (2 times per week), and 04 monthly for the nutritional orientat
09 meetings with parents, of which 06 bi-weekly, 02 nutritional meetings (01 in the beginning and the other after 30 days) and also um meeting with a physical educator in the first week of the interve
Behavioural
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Sponsors
Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Eligibility
Age
10 Years to 19 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Both mass index above than the 95th percentile for age featuring obese according to the curves of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 2000); between 10 and 19 years old; willingness to participate in all program activities.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Psychological disorders; use of medications that could interfere in the variables; physical difficulties that impeded the development of all activities.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Increased social competence score checked by the Child Behavior Checklist. Reducing behavior problems checked by the Child Behavior Checklist. Increase in academic performance verified by higher grades in the school. Reduction in body mass index checked in anthropometric assessment, whereas the curves of the CDC (2000). These outcomes are expected soon after treatment and after 9 months of intervention. In all outcomes, it is considered a variation of at least 5% of the score on before/after comparison.;Obese adolescents who participated of the full intervention group, increased their social competence score, reduced behavior problems, reduced body mass index and maintained this reduction for one year. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Não são esperados desfechos secundários. | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactGraziela Sapienza
Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Outcome results
None listed