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Motivational Interviewing for Weight Loss

NCT01246349 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2017-11-17

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Summary

The investigators studied the effect of motivational interviewing (MI) on self-efficacy, health behaviors, and health outcomes in overweight children and adolescents (ages ranging from 10 to 18 years).

Conditions

  • Childhood Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Motivational Interviewing (Treatment Group)

Motivational interviewing (MI) can be defined as a client-centered, directive method of therapy for enhancing intrinsic motivation to change by exploring and resolving ambivalence (Miller and Rollnick, 2002). MI manifests through specific strategies, such as reflective listening, summarization, shared decision making, and agenda setting.

BEHAVIORAL

Social Skills Training (Control Group)

Within the social skills training framework, advice is given to clients and sessions are focused on assigning goals for clients to work towards without specific regard for their readiness to change. The intervention is aimed at finding appropriate ways to navigate typical social situations (e.g., how to negotiate with parents).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Hospital for Sick Children

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jill Hamilton, MD · The Hospital for Sick Children

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-09-30
Primary Completion
2012-07-31
Completion
2012-11-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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