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Evaluating the Transferability of a Successful, Hospital-based, Childhood Obesity Clinic to Primary Care: a Pilot Study

NCT00536536 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 106

Last updated 2019-04-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Obesity affects one in five children in the UK and undoubtedly causes increased ill health with rising levels of childhood and adolescent diabetes, obesity induced liver disease and increased risk of early heart disease. There are few clinics offering effective treatment for childhood obesity. However, the clinic for childhood obesity at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children (BCH) has been successful in around 83% of cases. This pilot study aims to examine the feasibility of transferring the success of the hospital clinic to primary care in preparation for a full RCT. The study will entail training a practice nurse, community dietician and exercise specialist to deliver the same clinical service in primary care as that offered in BCH. Initial work will gather the views of staff delivering the hospital service and those of patients and parents to identify the crucial components of the intervention that are likely to be needed in primary care and to then to refine the intervention.A pilot trial will examine how feasible it is to recruit patients into the service and get some initial idea as to whether weight management is equally good, patient satisfaction and retention improves and what data needs to be collected for a full economic assessment. If found to be effective, the next step will be to use knowledge gained in this study to design and undertake a more extensive, formal study across Bristol in various primary care settings.This larger study will address how such a service can be delivered across a complete spectrum of primary care populations, so that similar services could be developed across the country.

Conditions

  • Childhood Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Obesity management framework

Treatment in primary care will be compared to treatment in a secondary hospital setting. Treatment in both cases will be provided by a multi-disciplinary team of: obesity or practice nurse, dietitian, exercise specialist with some input from medical team.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Bristol

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Debbie Sharp · University of Bristol

  • Christopher Salisbury · University of Bristol

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
5 Years
Max Age
17 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-04-30
Primary Completion
2010-06-30
Completion
2010-06-30

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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