A School Nurse-Delivered Intervention for Overweight and At Risk Adolescents

Completed · Phase 1

Conditions studied: Overweight, Obesity

In brief

Overweight in adolescents has nearly tripled in the past two decades and has serious physical and psychosocial consequences, both during adolescence and into adulthood. School nurses have tremendous potential to prevent and treat overweight in this population, as over 95% of adolescents have contact with the school health system each year and school nurses have the credibility and skills to provide guidance regarding weight, diet and physical activity. The goals of the proposed exploratory study are to adapt an innovative, theory-based school nurse-delivered counseling intervention model used effectively for smoking cessation for the treatment of adolescent overweight, and test its feasibility and potential efficacy in reducing BMI, improving diet, increasing physical activity and decreasing sedentary behavior. If the results of this exploratory study prove promising, the efficacy of the intervention will be evaluated in a large scale randomized controlled trial.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00682188

Run by

University of Massachusetts, Worcester

People needed

84

Starts

2008-09-01

Expected to finish

2009-11-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-03-13

Who can join

Age: 13 and older, up to 18. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• enrolled in grades 9 through 12
• BMI equal or greater than 85th percentile
• able to understand and participate in study protocol
• able to provide informed assent (adolescent) and consent (parent)
• student and at least one parent English speaking

You may not qualify if…

• unable/unwilling to provide informed assent (adolescent)and consent (parent)
• planning to move out of the area within the next 6 months
• medical condition that precludes adherence to study dietary recommendations
• diagnosis of a serious psychiatric illness within the past 5 years
• genetic or endocrine causes of obesity
• developmental delay that would prevent participation in intervention or measurements
• prescribed medications associated with weight gain
• morbidly obese, defined as 300 pounds oe greater

Where it is running

• University of Massachusetts Medical School — Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

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