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Therapeutic Education Groups for Childhood Obesity

NCT06239662 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 318

Last updated 2024-04-01

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to test the efficacy of an educational therapeutic intervention in treating obesity in a pediatric population.

It aims to verify the differences between the experimental group (group-based program) and the control group (individual program) in respect to the BMI z-score values between baseline measurement (beginning of treatment), final measurement (end of treatment) and 18 months follow-up.

Conditions

  • Childhood Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Therapeutic Group

The first part of each meeting, lasting 45 minutes, will be held only with children and young people, while parents will wait in the waiting room. At the end of the first part, for each meeting, the children will be asked to make a commitment relating to the topics covered, which will be verified in the following meeting. Once the part with the patients has concluded, they will be accompanied to an adjacent environment where a pediatrician volunteer will be waiting for them and will offer fun and socialization activities. In the meantime, the parents will be seated and will address, together with the team staff, the same issues discussed with their children, again for a duration of approximately 45 minutes. Parents will also be invited to make a commitment similar to that required of children.

BEHAVIORAL

Usual care

The dietician will meet individually each child together with parents. Dietician will provide nutritional advices.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Azienda USL Reggio Emilia - IRCCS

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Marta Fontana, Psycologist · Azienda USL - IRCCS di Reggio Emilia

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
7 Years
Max Age
17 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-09-22
Primary Completion
2023-03-31
Completion
2023-03-31

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