NCT05046626

Nutritional Counseling to Change Eating Behavior, Metabolism and Anthropometry in Adults With Abdominal Obesity

Effect of Intervention Based on Nutritional Counseling on Changes in Eating Behavior and Components of Body Composition and Metabolism in Adult Workers With Abdominal Obesity

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 113 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Guadalajara · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the impact of changes in eating behavior through nutritional counseling, after nine months of intervention, on body composition and metabolism in adult workers with abdominal obesity

Detailed description

This study is a nutritional intervention in voluntary workers with abdominal obesity (waist circumference ≥102cm and ≥88cm). The intervention is divided into two phases: the intensive one has a duration of 6 months and consisted in a 4 face-to-face sessions with 9 online or telephone contacts based on the use of nutritional counseling \[Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 2013\] and the second phase: consisted in a 3 months' follow-up with 2 telephone contacts and a final visit face-to-face. The investigators used the Cognitive Behavior Therapy process as a theoretical framework, and also used the intervention comprised sessions designed to promote motivation, social support, self-regulation to promote the eating behavior change process. The participants were measured weight loss, waist circumference, and the lipid profile change, pre-intervention, and after six and nice months post-intervention.

Conditions

• Obesity, Abdominal

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Nutritional counseling	Intervention based on nutritional counseling under Cognitive Behavioral Theory and the used of strategies like self-monitoring, goals, cognitive restructuring and social support.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-04-04
• Primary completion: 2017-08-12
• Completion: 2018-01-17
• First posted: 2021-09-16
• Last updated: 2021-09-16