NCT02794090

Childhood Obesity Treatment - Telephone Coaching vc Usual Care

Exclusive Telephone Coaching in Maintaining Weight Loss - An Randomized Controlled Trial of Childhood Obesity Treatment

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 37 (actual)
• Sponsor: Sodertalje Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years – 14 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study evaluates if usual physical care visits to an outpatient pediatric clinic can be replaced with more frequent and shorter Telephone coaching Contacts during 18 months.

Detailed description

In this randomized controlled study, patients at age 5 to 14 and enrolled in obesity treatment, were randomized to either usual care according to regular routine or to telephone consultation.The randomization was done at the start of individual treatment and lasted for 18 months. We also studied working time required for the Health care, and the families' experience of the Telephone coaching.

Conditions

• Childhood Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Usual care, individual visits	Randomized controlled study of two types of delivering behavioral treatment to Children suffering from obesity.
BEHAVIORAL	Telephone coaching	Randomized controlled study of two types of delivering behavioral treatment to Children suffering from obesity.

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-05-01
• Primary completion: 2012-09-01
• Completion: 2013-01-01
• First posted: 2016-06-08
• Last updated: 2016-06-09