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Efficacy of Parent-Child Dieting Plans Incorporating Medifast Meal Replacements for Weight Loss

NCT00198744 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 80

Last updated 2005-09-20

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Summary

1. Does a joint parent-child dieting approach, as opposed to an individually-based approach, improve weight loss outcomes?
2. Is a diet which includes Medifast meal replacements as efficacious as a non-supplemented Food Guide Pyramid-based diet (reference diet) in achieving better adherence to the diet, initial weight loss, reduction in % body fat, and weight maintenance?
3. Does regular use of Medifast meal replacements, in conjunction with a Food Guide Pyramid-based diet, result in significantly better compliance, greater dietary satisfaction, dietary quality, and palatability than the reference diet?
4. Do children who have lost weight using Medifast meal replacements, as an adjunct to a Food Guide Pyramid-based diet, achieve health benefits compared to baseline values and are these health benefits greater than those obtained following the reference diet?

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Medifast FIT! for Kids

BEHAVIORAL

standard recommendations for dietary intake in children

BEHAVIORAL

both diet plans with and without a parent dieting

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Medifast, Inc.

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lawrence J Cheskin, MD · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
8 Years
Max Age
15 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2004-06-30
Completion
2006-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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