NCT01023126

Obesity and Psychotherapy as an Alternative to Treatment

Poor Patients Adherence to Exercise and Group Therapy as an Approach to Obesity Treatment

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Feevale · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 25 Years – 62 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Adherence to obesity treatment programs has been a limiting factor to good results in loosing weight. This study aimed to verify if obese subjects submitted to a physical exercise program and group psychotherapy would have a greater adherence, than obese people exercising only.

Detailed description

The sample was forty people, both genders, mean age: 42,2 ± 10,7 years old. Physical exercise consisted of walking and stretching three times a week, during 50 minutes, with intensity verified by the Borg Scale, during three months. One of the days were supervised by the authors while two were freely chosen by the participant, without supervision. The verified variables were: total body mass, height, body mass index, physical activity level, caloric expenditure, waist circumference and fat percentile. Half of the sample participated of group psychotherapy once weekly.

Conditions

• Obesity
• Therapy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Group Psychotherapy	Group psychotherapy once a week, under a psychiatrist supervision

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-05-01
• Primary completion: 2007-08-01
• Completion: 2009-09-01
• First posted: 2009-12-02
• Last updated: 2009-12-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil