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Empowerment and Overweight - a Prospective Observational Study

NCT01644708 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 80

Last updated 2013-06-10

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Overweight and obesity put an heavy burden over people's health. Many methods are reported in medical literature but none of them proved to be effective in maintaining the results achieved over time. Motivational change remains a fundamental step towards the maintenance of a new lifestyle. Strengthening personal capabilities and self-esteem seem to be key strategies in motivating persons for change and facilitating a capacity of coping.

The aim of this study is to observe the effects of an individual empowerment program on the health of a group of overweight/obese persons.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Self empowerment

1\. Group meeting, introducing the method and the assessment tools 1. Self-empowerment, 2. Handing over the "journal", 3. Questionnaire about emotional states and motivations for losing weight and for change. The group meetings, lasting one hour and a half, will take place every week, always on the same day and at the same time, for one year. During each meeting the participant "weighs himself" and he notes his weight down in his journal.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Azienda per i servizi Sanitari 4 Medio Friuli, Dipartimento di Salute Mentale, Udine

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Associazione Diamo Peso al Benessere

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Università degli Studi di Udine, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Clinica Psichiatrica

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Centro Regionale di Formazione per l'Area delle Cure Primarie

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Azienda Per I Servizi Sanitari N. 2 Isontina

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Pierluigi Struzzo, MD · Regional Centre for the Training in Primary Care

  • Mario Novello, MD · Azienda per i Servizi Sanitari Medio Friuli

  • Anita Cacitti, dr · Azienda per i Servizi Sanitari Medio Friuli

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-01-31
Primary Completion
2013-03-31
Completion
2013-03-31

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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