NCT04459130

Effectiveness of School-Based Weight Management Program in Overweight and Obese Children Between 8-11 Years

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 66 (actual)
• Sponsor: Karabuk University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 11 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Obesity, which is an important public health problem of the last century globally, affects not only adults but also children and young people. Reducing childhood obesity requires effective lifestyle changes and behavioral interventions aimed at healthy nutrition, physical activity and stress management. to reduce childhood obesity, including school-based multi-component behavioral research in Turkey it has not been demonstrated to parents. The program, which is planned to be carried out and aims to reduce overweight and obesity in children, is a school-based parenting lifestyle intervention involving multiple behaviors. The program includes family visits, game-based physical activity activities with children, healthy eating recommendations and healthy eating activities with parent participation. The program planned to be implemented was developed to evaluate whether healthy preferences and lifestyle intervention reduce obesity. The aim of this study is to make the positive health behaviors permanent in children, to be a guide for combating childhood obesity and to be useful for future research. to be applied to the research, nutrition consists of 10 sessions, physical activity, including issues such as coping with healthy ways with stress Child Obesity Program (COP), it is thought to overcome this deficiency was needed in Turkey.

Conditions

• Childhood Obesity
• Child Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Child Obesity Program	The program consists of 10 sessions, each lasting 40 minutes. An EOP booklet containing session programs will be distributed to children. The topics of the sessions are as follows: Session 1: Healthy lifestyles * Session 2: Self-esteem and positive thinking, Setting goals Session 3: Stress and Coping, Coping with Emotions in Healthy Ways Session 4: Personality and effective communication * Session 5: Activity: Time for action Session 6: Nutrition basics Session 7: Reading tags Session 8: Portion size, nutrition and healthy food choices in schools Session 9: Snacks can also be healthy: Healthy choices * Session 10: Together for a healthy life (Melnyk et al., 2006; 2007; 2009). Detailed information about the sessions is given in annex -3.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-11-20
• Primary completion: 2020-03-20
• Completion: 2021-01-20
• First posted: 2020-07-07
• Last updated: 2021-12-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)