NCT00464984

Lifestyle Intervention in Morbidly Obese Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The Hospital of Vestfold · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The long term effects of organized lifestyle intervention on weight loss, physical fitness and quality of life in morbidly obese patients have not been extensively studied. The objective of this study is to investigate whether an intensive lifestyle intervention program in a tertiary care clinic (Spesialsykehuset for Rehabilitating) is superior to lifestyle intervention in a primary care setting with respect to long term (4-years) changes in weight loss, physical fitness and quality of life

Detailed description

Due to limited recruitment from GP, the study design has been changed into an observational long term study following the participants in the intensive lifestyle intervention group

Conditions

• Morbid Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Lifestyle intervention	Intensive lifestyle intervention at a rehabilitation centre 3 times a week the first 3 months of study

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-08-01
• Primary completion: 2017-12-01
• Completion: 2017-12-01
• First posted: 2007-04-24
• Last updated: 2021-09-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway