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Pediatric Quality of Life Among Population With Body Mass Index (BMI) Greater Than or Equal to 85%

NCT00714870 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 76

Last updated 2013-05-31

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Summary

We are currently experiencing an epidemic of obesity in the Pediatric Population. This epidemic affects many areas including quality of life.

We have been conducting a nutrition and exercise program since 2003. We have noticed that many of the participants seem to have a better quality of life after finishing the one year program compared to when they started. We would like to objectively quantify this improvement using a validated questionnaire at the beginning and at the end of the study. Questionnaires will be given to participants and to their caretakers at the same time. There will be two groups in the study: one intervention (minimum attendance of 4 sessions) and one control group.

Conditions

  • Pediatric Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Behavioral nutrition and exercise program

The intervention consists of a behavioral nutrition and exercise program. Meetings occur monthly on a Saturday afternoon and last 4 hours. During this time we cover: 1)registration: monitoring of sedentary activities and liquid choices, motivational interviewing, exercise testing;2)exercise: includes strength training; 3) educational lectures; 4) didactic games and projects.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Steward St. Elizabeth's Medical Center of Boston, Inc.

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Shirley Gonzalez, MD · Steward St. Elizabeth's Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
10 Years
Max Age
20 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-02-29
Primary Completion
2012-07-31
Completion
2012-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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