The Effect of ObeseGO! Towards Adolescent Obesity

The Effect of Internet Based Intervention (OBESEGO!) Towards Obesity Among Adolescents

Adolescents nowadays is having most of their times other than school hours spending on screen by playing games, watching the movies and surfing the internet. Thus, it was suggested that Internet-based interventions have the potential for establishing healthy dietary style and physical activity that may persist in adulthood and reduce the risk of chronic disease. Preventing adolescent obesity requires an attitude of willingness by adolescents to implement healthy behaviors. By providing the health related activities in website, it would help the adolescents to spend time on screen by having something which can benefit them and improve their knowledge and attitudes.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Adolescent Behavioral Change
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: ObeseGO!; Behavioral: Pamphlets material

Detailed Description

This study done in improving the health promotion in Malaysia. It will be an evidenced in creating the most effective way in creating the awareness among adolescent. By having an effective health promotion it will help in reducing the prevalence of obesity and improving health among adolescents hence will reducing the comorbidities among adulthood.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 47
• Phase: Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 16 years and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Students aged of 16 years old (adolescents) in secondary school in Kuala Lumpur who have BMI of more than 25 kg/m2, have one guardian or parent who willing to join the study and having access to internet at home were then selected to join this study

Exclusion Criteria:

• those who are having existing medical condition and having weight loss more than 2 kg in last two months

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention; ObeseGO!-web-based intervention	Behavioral: ObeseGO!; The intervention group were received the obeseGO! intervention which is an internet-based intervention. The participants and the parents who are randomly chosen to enroll in this intervention group were provided with the ObeseGO! website. The website was accessed at www.obesego.com. The website consists of various informations on healthy lifestyle, diet and ways to overcome obesity.
Other: Control; Given pamphlets education mainly on diet and physical activity	Behavioral: Pamphlets material; The control group will be given pamphlets material on diet and physical activity.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Body mass index	reduce of BMI	3 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Waist Circumference	3 months
Body fat percentage	3 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: July 1, 2013
• Primary Completion (Actual): October 1, 2013
• Study Completion (Actual): November 1, 2013

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 5, 2015
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 5, 2015
• First Posted (Estimate): February 10, 2015

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): March 30, 2015
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 27, 2015
• Last Verified: March 1, 2015

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Overnutrition; Nutrition Disorders; Overweight; Body Weight; Obesity
• Other Study ID Numbers: azmawati