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| Title |
Study protocol: evaluation of ‘JenMe’, a commercially-delivered weight management program for adolescents: a randomised controlled trial
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, June 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12889-015-1923-y |
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| Authors |
Aimee L Dordevic, Maxine P Bonham, Robert S Ware, Leah Brennan, Helen Truby |
| Abstract |
Early lifestyle intervention with overweight and obese adolescents could help to avoid serious health events in early adulthood, ultimately alleviating some of the strain on the public health system due to obesity-related morbidity. Commercial weight loss programs have wide reach into the community setting, and have demonstrated success in long term weight management in adults, beyond that of current public health care. Commercial weight-management programs have not been evaluated as a method of delivery for overweight and obese adolescents. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of a new adolescent weight management program in a commercial environment. One hundred and forty adolescents, 13 to 17 years old, will be randomised to either a weight management program intervention or a wait-listed group for 12 weeks. The commercial program will consist of a combined dietary and lifestyle approach targeting improved health behaviours for weight-loss or weight-stability. Participants will be overweight or obese (above the 85(th) percentile for BMI) and without existing co-morbidities. Outcome measures will be assessed at baseline and after 12 weeks. Primary outcome measures will be changes in BMI Z-score and waist-height ratio. Secondary outcome measures will include changes in behaviour, physical activity and psychosocial wellbeing. Intervention participants will be followed up at 6 months following completion of the initial program. Ethics approval has been granted from the Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee (CF11/3687-2011001940). This independent evaluation of a weight management program for adolescents, delivered in a commercial setting, will provide initial evidence for the effectiveness of such programs; which may offer adolescents an avenue of weight-management with ongoing support prior to the development of obesity related co-morbidities. The protocol for this study is registered with the International Clinical Trials Registry ISRCTN13602313 . |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 163 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 32 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 26 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 10% |
| Researcher | 16 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 8 | 5% |
| Other | 24 | 15% |
| Unknown | 41 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 33 | 20% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 22 | 13% |
| Psychology | 21 | 13% |
| Sports and Recreations | 12 | 7% |
| Social Sciences | 10 | 6% |
| Other | 14 | 9% |
| Unknown | 52 | 32% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 January 2022.
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#4,695
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