NCT00613353

Sedentary Behavior in Overweight Women

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 38 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Mississippi Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Objective activity data will be collected using accelerometry for a minimum of seven days on 38 adult, female, women recruited from the metabolic Clinic at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Following objective measurement of activity, participants will complete self-report and objective activity data, as well as the relationship between sedentary activities and food cravings will be examined. It is hypothesized that minutes of sedentary behavior, especially time spent in television viewing, will be significantly correlated with total and specific food cravings.

Conditions

• Sedentary Behavior
• Overweight

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Behavioral	Participants will be asked to wear an accelerometer

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-01-01
• Primary completion: 2008-05-01
• Completion: 2008-05-01
• First posted: 2008-02-13
• Last updated: 2008-11-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States