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The Efficacy of an Inpatient Program for Long-term Weight Maintenance in Children and Adolescents With Morbid Obesity

NCT01254266 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2011-07-26

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The major problem in the treatment of morbidly obese children is the long term maintenance of the reduced weight. Maintenance-focused interventions have not been studied enough in adolescents with morbid obesity, neither in regard to conservative methods of weight reduction, nor in regard to bariatric surgeries.

This study will investigate the effectiveness of an integrative, multi-disciplinary inpatient program for promoting long-term weight maintenance in children with morbid obesity. The program will be studied in two perspectives: as a conservative treatment, as well as an 'envelope' for bariatric surgeries including a pre-operational preparation phase and a post-operational follow-up.

The investigators hypothesize that program participants will maintain weight significantly better than the proportion known in the literature.

Conditions

  • Morbid Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

inpatient hospitalization and follow up

An inpatient program and a 1-year weekly follow up that include multi-disciplinary interventions for weight reduction and maintenance.

BEHAVIORAL

inpatient treatment and follow up

one month inpatient treatment followed by a year-long follow up on the inpatient unit.

PROCEDURE

bariatric surgery

bariatric surgery.

BEHAVIORAL

inpatient treatment with follow up

1 month inpatient treatment followed by a year-long follow up on the inpatient unit.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Rabin Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Silvana Fennig, M.D. · Rabin Medical Canter

  • Tamar Tahar, R.N. · Rabin Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-12-31
Primary Completion
2013-06-30
Completion
2014-09-30

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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