NCT00422916

Treatment of Overweight Children and Adolescents

Evaluation of the Intervention Program "Obeldicks Light" for Overweight Children and Adolescents

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 66 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Witten/Herdecke · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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.

Conditions

• Overweight

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	behavioral intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-01-01
• Primary completion: 2009-12-01
• Completion: 2010-12-01
• First posted: 2007-01-17
• Last updated: 2016-10-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany