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Martial Arts Training combined with Multidisciplinary Interventions in Overweight and Obese adolescents

Effect of Martial Arts Training using Karate Strokes combined with Multidisciplinary Interventions in Overweight and Obese adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
REBEC
Registry ID
RBR-8r6xtc
Enrollment
Unknown
Registered
2018-04-28
Start date
2018-03-07
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-10-27

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Conditions

Obesity

Interventions

A sample of 60 adolescents will be formed, which will be divided into two groups with the same number of members. Experimental Group: 30 adolescents with overweight and obesity will receive nutritiona
Behavioural
Other
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Sponsors

Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina
Lead Sponsor
Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina
Collaborator

Eligibility

Age
12 Years to 17 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Adolescents of both sexes; with ages between 12 years and 18 years incomplete; who have the capacity to understand the questionnaires; to sign the Terms of Free and Informed Consent; that they deliver the Term of Free and Informed Consent signed by the legal representatives; who are in pubertal stage three, four or five; which has a BMI greater than one standard deviation above the median BMI according to the WHO growth reference table for each age; who has not performed regular physical exercises in the last 3 months that will precede the start of the research; who have the physical conditions to perform regular physical exercises; who is willing to attend interventions; who has never had drug treatment for weight loss; that does not make chronic use of alcohol.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Adolescents with a history of alcohol or drug abuse; who have diseases that limit exercise or put their physical integrity at risk, such as cardiovascular diseases, osteoarticular diseases, type I diabetes, renal failure, endocrine diseases and metabolic complications such as hyperinsulinemia and hypercholesterolemia.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Changes in body composition and anthropometric parameters (reduction of body fat percentage and circumference measurements), verified by anthropometry and electrical bioimpedance, based on the statistical difference (p <0.05) between the assessments made before and after intervention period.

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Reduction of the lipid profile (triglycerides, total cholesterol and fractions), verified by venipuncture and analyzed by the colorimetric method, based on the statistical difference (p <0.05) between the evaluations made before and after the intervention period.

Countries

Brazil

Contacts

Public ContactFabricio Souza

Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina

fabriciokarate@hotmail.com554836213363

Outcome results

None listed

Source: REBEC (via WHO ICTRP)