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TeenPower: e-Empowering Teenagers to Prevent Obesity

NCT03516097 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 360

Last updated 2020-02-17

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Summary

Transdisciplinary practice-based action research project that aims to develop innovative cognitive-behavioral interventions to empower adolescents, through increased and interactive contact between adolescent and multidisciplinary healthcare team. Project born from the discussion with trans-territorial stakeholders (health professionals and school communities), in the absence of an integrated, creative and dynamic strategy of overweight prevention and promotion of salutogenic behaviors in adolescents.

The polytechnics of Leiria, Santarém and Castelo Branco are co-promotors of this project, as well as Município de Leiria (City Council), key partners in the development and implementation of the intervention program. It is expected the partnership with ARS-Centro.

The main goal is the development, implementation and evaluation of a program for the promotion of healthy behaviors and prevention of obesity in adolescence, based on e-therapy and sustained by the case management methodology.

Conditions

  • Adolescent Obesity
  • Empowerment
  • ICT

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Structured school based intervention

Intervention includes behavioral, nutritional and physical activity counselling (online and face-to-face psycho-educative sessions).

DEVICE

mobile app usage

The e-therapeutic platform and mobile app (TeenPower) includes educational resources, self-monitoring, social support, interactive training modules and motivational tools. In addition to the case manager, the program will also have the direct support of an interdisciplinary team (nurse, nutritionist, exercise physiologist, psychologist among others).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco

    collaborator OTHER

  • Polytechnic University of Santarém

    collaborator OTHER

  • Município de Leiria

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Instituto Politécnico de Leiria

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-09-01
Primary Completion
2018-12-31
Completion
2019-02-28

Countries

  • Portugal

Study Locations

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