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Exercise and Behavioral Therapy in Obese Children

NCT01506245 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 75

Last updated 2012-01-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The aim of this study is to compare the effects of exercise training and family-based behavioral treatment, either in individual or in group setting, in pre-pubertal children and their mother.

Conditions

  • Childhood Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Family-based behavioral therapy

The intervention consist of a 6-month family-based behavioural therapy either in group (1 session/week, with a dietician and a psychologist) or in individual setting (with a paediatrician or a dietician in alternance 1x/month). Both therapies include exercise training twice per week (60 minutes each). Parents, or at at least the mother, must participate to the behavioral treatment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Swiss National Science Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • University Hospital, Geneva

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Nathalie Farpour-Lambert, MD · University of Geneva

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
8 Years
Max Age
11 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-01-31
Primary Completion
2012-06-30
Completion
2012-12-31

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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