Movement Therapy and Childhood Obesity

Obesity Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effect of Movement Therapy on the Success in a Multidisciplinary Intervention for the Treatment of Childhood Obesity

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01555034
• Other study ID #: 016111CTIL
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: March 8, 2012
• Last updated: April 13, 2015
• Start date: April 2012
• Est. completion date: April 2015

Study information

• Verified date: March 2014
• Source: Meir Medical Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Israel: Ethics Commission
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The Child health and Sports Center, Meir Medical Center, has an intervention program to treat obese children. The program includes physical activity, nutritional intervention and behavioral treatment.The emphasis given in the center to physical activity and sport enables a strong connection with movement therapy. Movement therapy allows obese children to face and cope with the psychological and emotional aspects of obesity.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the contribution of the movement therapy intervention to our program.

Description:

Movement therapy is part of the multidisciplinary intervention. Weekly one hour long sessions are conducted under the guidance of a certified therapists.

The meeting includes physical movement aimed to address the emotional world of the obese child. Using games, structured exercises and verbal processing.

At the start and end of the evaluation the children will answer questionnaires to study:

1. Behavioral questionnaires:emotional state: anxiety, depression, communication, self-esteem, quality of life and self-efficacy.

2. Demographic questions . At the beginning and the end of the program a certified movement therapist will observe the children to estimate the change of emotional movement.weight, height and BMI are measured regularly in the center.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 26
• Est. completion date: April 2015
• Est. primary completion date: April 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 6 Years to 18 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Overweight/obese children

Exclusion Criteria:

• Child that do not want to take part in this study

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Obesity
• Pediatric Obesity

Intervention

Behavioral:
• movement therapy
exercise, nutrition, movement therapy

Other:
• exercise plus nutrition
exercise, nutrition

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Israel	Meir Medical Center	Kfar-Saba

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Meir Medical Center

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Israel, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Emotional/behavioral changes	Change from Baseline in emotional and behavioral questioners at 3 months. The questioners: depression, anxiety, self-efficacy, self-esteem, attachment and quality of life.	3 MONTHS	No
Secondary	weight, height and BMI		3 MONTHS	No