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Obesity Intervention Program for University Students

NCT03115229 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 70

Last updated 2019-08-28

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Summary

The aim of this study is to determine the effect of preventive nursing interventions, which consist of education / practices including of healthy eating and physical activity and motivational messages which sent through social media to reduce obesity risk in university students who in the risk group for obesity.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Protective Nursing Interventions for Reduction Obesity Risk

Applications for the experimental group for 11 weeks are grouped under three headings. These; Nutritional habits, practices for physical activity, and motivational messages sent via social media. Nutritional practices: Nutritional practices consist of group trainings, individual practices and collective events. Practices for physical activity: Group trainings, group exercises, individual exercises and collective activities. Physical activity was done for 3 days per week and 45-60 minutes every seans for 8 weeks. In addition, activities such as collective nature walks and cycling have been carried out Practices through social media: For physical activity and healthy eating; Motivational messages were sent twice a week for 11 weeks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Selcuk University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Belgin Akın, Professor · Selcuk University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
19 Years
Max Age
24 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-06-10
Primary Completion
2016-03-07
Completion
2016-05-27

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