NCT02360553

The Effect of ObeseGO! Towards Adolescent Obesity

The Effect of Internet Based Intervention (OBESEGO!) Towards Obesity Among Adolescents

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 47 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Adolescents nowadays is having most of their times other than school hours spending on screen by playing games, watching the movies and surfing the internet. Thus, it was suggested that Internet-based interventions have the potential for establishing healthy dietary style and physical activity that may persist in adulthood and reduce the risk of chronic disease. Preventing adolescent obesity requires an attitude of willingness by adolescents to implement healthy behaviors. By providing the health related activities in website, it would help the adolescents to spend time on screen by having something which can benefit them and improve their knowledge and attitudes.

Detailed description

This study done in improving the health promotion in Malaysia. It will be an evidenced in creating the most effective way in creating the awareness among adolescent. By having an effective health promotion it will help in reducing the prevalence of obesity and improving health among adolescents hence will reducing the comorbidities among adulthood.

Conditions

• Adolescent Behavioral Change

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	ObeseGO!	The intervention group were received the obeseGO! intervention which is an internet-based intervention. The participants and the parents who are randomly chosen to enroll in this intervention group were provided with the ObeseGO! website. The website was accessed at www.obesego.com. The website consists of various informations on healthy lifestyle, diet and ways to overcome obesity.
BEHAVIORAL	Pamphlets material	The control group will be given pamphlets material on diet and physical activity.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-07-01
• Primary completion: 2013-10-01
• Completion: 2013-11-01
• First posted: 2015-02-10
• Last updated: 2015-03-30