Young, Fit and Happy. A Web-based Intervention to Prevent Obesity in Adolescents.
YFH
Young Fit and Happy - Meaningful Physical Activity as Means to Improve Quality of Life and Prevent Weight Gain in Over-weight and Obese Adolescents. A Web-based Intervention.
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interventional
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1 country
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Brief Summary
The prevalence of overweight and obesity is increasing throughout the world. Obesity is seen as one of the most important public health threats because of the significant impact of chronic conditions associated with obesity. Obesity during adolescence is a strong precursor of obesity and related morbidity in adulthood. Interventions aimed directly at reducing weight or preventing increase in weight shows limited results on long term effects and it is shown that increase in activity has more impact on health outcome than on weight-loss. Further, weight-loss does not seem to be an appropriate measure of therapeutic interventions for growing children. The hypothesis of this study is that focusing on increasing meaningful physical activity through individual tailored counselling will have positive effects on the adolescents' fitness (health) and quality of life. Thus, the overall purpose of the study is to examine the extent to which a web-based intervention influences physical activity, fitness and quality of life in over-weight and obese adolescents Further, the aim is to explore and describe how adolescents experience being over-weight and obese, what they perceive as meaningful physical activity and finally how adolescents experience lifestyle changes as demanded in the intervention study.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P50-P75 for not_applicable
Started Jan 2012
Typical duration for not_applicable
2 active sites
Health score is calculated from publicly available data and should be used for screening purposes only.
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
Study Start
First participant enrolled
January 1, 2012
CompletedFirst Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
October 2, 2012
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
October 4, 2012
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
May 1, 2014
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
December 1, 2014
CompletedApril 15, 2015
April 1, 2015
2.3 years
October 2, 2012
April 14, 2015
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
Fitness
It Hypothesised that weekly individual web-counseling will motivate overweight and obese adolescents to increased physical activity. Further we assume that increased physical activity will improve the adolescents' fitness. Fitness is measured with a maximal multistage 20 m shuttle run test (Leger et al., 1988)
One year
Secondary Outcomes (1)
Quality of Life
one year
Other Outcomes (1)
Motivation for Physical activity and exercise, BMI, Self-efficacy
One Year
Study Arms (2)
Control group
NO INTERVENTIONTreatment as usual
Young and Active
EXPERIMENTALThis arm will recieve web-based health counselling through the web-site Young and Active.
Interventions
The intervention will consist of three meetings between the adolescent, the parents and the researchers, and weekly web-based health-counselling. The adolescents will set goals and make an individual activity plan on the web-page. During the study period all activity will be registered by the adolescents. The researchers will perform weekly counseling based on Selfdetermination Theory and Motivational Interviewing. The webiste also allows for the adolescents to communicate with eacother and with the counsler through a blog.
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- overweight/obese adolescents in 8th grade
- BMI is over or equal to the 95th percentile (BMI\>25 according to Cole's index)(height and weight measured by the school nurse)
- school population
You may not qualify if:
- not have severe health problems as a result of their overweight
- not be in another treatment program
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
- Oslo Metropolitan Universitylead
- Norwegian School of Sport Sciencescollaborator
Study Sites (2)
Oslo and Akershus University College
Oslo, 0130, Norway
Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
Oslo, 0806, Norway
Related Publications (2)
Sundar TKB, Londal K, Lagerlov P, Glavin K, Helseth S. Overweight adolescents' views on physical activity - experiences of participants in an internet-based intervention: a qualitative study. BMC Public Health. 2018 Apr 4;18(1):448. doi: 10.1186/s12889-018-5324-x.
PMID: 29618327DERIVEDRiiser K, Londal K, Ommundsen Y, Smastuen MC, Misvaer N, Helseth S. The outcomes of a 12-week Internet intervention aimed at improving fitness and health-related quality of life in overweight adolescents: the Young & Active controlled trial. PLoS One. 2014 Dec 5;9(12):e114732. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114732. eCollection 2014.
PMID: 25478791DERIVED
MeSH Terms
Conditions
Interventions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Officials
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Sølvi Helseth, PhD
Oslo Metropolitan University
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- NON RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- NONE
- Purpose
- PREVENTION
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
- PI Title
- Professor
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
October 2, 2012
First Posted
October 4, 2012
Study Start
January 1, 2012
Primary Completion
May 1, 2014
Study Completion
December 1, 2014
Last Updated
April 15, 2015
Record last verified: 2015-04