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A School Nurse-Delivered Intervention for Overweight and At Risk Adolescents

NCT00682188 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 84

Last updated 2014-03-13

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Overweight in adolescents has nearly tripled in the past two decades and has serious physical and psychosocial consequences, both during adolescence and into adulthood. School nurses have tremendous potential to prevent and treat overweight in this population, as over 95% of adolescents have contact with the school health system each year and school nurses have the credibility and skills to provide guidance regarding weight, diet and physical activity. The goals of the proposed exploratory study are to adapt an innovative, theory-based school nurse-delivered counseling intervention model used effectively for smoking cessation for the treatment of adolescent overweight, and test its feasibility and potential efficacy in reducing BMI, improving diet, increasing physical activity and decreasing sedentary behavior. If the results of this exploratory study prove promising, the efficacy of the intervention will be evaluated in a large scale randomized controlled trial.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Counseling Intervention

Six 30-minute individual student-centered counseling sessions based on the 5A approach to assist adolescents in making changes in their diet and level of physical activity delivered by school nurses over 2 months (weekly in month 1, biweekly in month 2)

BEHAVIORAL

Information Intervention

Six individual sessions with the school nurse over 2 months to check weight and behavioral changes and provide a series of six pamphlets on weight and weight management

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Massachusetts, Worcester

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lori Pbert, PhD · University of Massachusetts, Worcester

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
13 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-09-30
Primary Completion
2009-11-30
Completion
2009-11-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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