NCT01602965

Effectiveness Between Nutritional Counseling Monthly Phone Call Versus Self Help Informative Booklet

Personalized Nutritional Program Plus a Nutritional Counseling Monthly Phone Call Versus a Personalized Nutritional Program With Self Help Informative Booklet

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the most effectiveness between a personalized nutritional program with a counseling monthly phone call Versus personalized nutritional program with self help Informative Booklet in a group of obesity or overweight patients without counseling phone call.

Detailed description

Evaluate the best effectiveness between two methods applied in the Dietary Service of institute orthopedic Rizzoli for the achievement of the weight loss. Personalized nutritional program with counseling phone call versus personalized nutritional program with self help Informative Booklet in a controlled group.There will be compared two groups of patients: First group: patients subject to balanced personalized nutritional program associated to counseling monthly phone call ; compliance and loss of weight will be done monthly for one year. Second group: patients subject to balanced personalized nutritional program associated to self help informative Booklet; compliance and loss of weight will be done after six months and after one year from the first meeting.

Conditions

• Obesity
• Overweight

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Counseling Monthly Phone Calls	the dietician will call the patient at home, and invite them to answer 11 open questions.The questionnaire collects information about weight loss, behaviors that need to be changed, problem-solving as to how to make the changes and physical activity levels.
PROCEDURE	Self Help Informative Booklet	Self help informative booklet includes information on how to manage healthy weight, how to lose weight, physical activity and a simplified and abbreviated version of the main behavioural strategies

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-09-01
• Primary completion: 2016-07-01
• Completion: 2016-08-01
• First posted: 2012-05-21
• Last updated: 2018-09-06
• Results posted: 2017-08-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy