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Motivational Interviewing as an Intervention for PCOS

NCT02924025 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 28

Last updated 2016-10-05

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Summary

The aim of the study is to examine if motivational interviewing can have a positive effect on weight loss over a 6 month period. By losing weight, the investigators assume the patients will have a positive effect on quality of life, and also that weight loss will help to regulate the factors that are present with polycystic ovary syndrom (PCOS); such as menstrual disorders and infertility.

Participants will be randomly assigned to a treatment group and a control group.

Both groups will be followed as normal with blood samples and other tests such as scans of the ovaries and measurement of height and weight at the beginning of the study and after six months.

In addition, there will be a small hair sample taken from the neck at the first consultation and after 6 months. This is done to measure the stress hormone cortisol in the body over the duration of the experiment.

The treatment group receive individual motivational interviews by a nurse every 14 days for a period of six months. After half a year, tests are repeated to see if there are significant differences between the groups.

Conditions

  • Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
  • Overweight and Obesity
  • Motivation

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Motivational interview

Motivational interview is an interview form based on the patients own thoughts of motivation. It will be conducted by a nurse who is specially trained in this interview type.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Odense University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Pernille Ravn, MD · Department of Gynocology and obstetrics D, Odense University Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-09-30
Primary Completion
2016-09-30
Completion
2016-09-30

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