Impact of an Effort Rehabilitation Program for Overweight/Obese Children/Teens on Quality of Life and Wellbeing

NCT ID: NCT02821637

Last Updated: 2025-11-20

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 47 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2015-01-14
• Study Completion Date: 2017-05-22

Brief Summary

Obese and overweight children or teens can join the Prevention and Care of Pediatric Obesity and Pediatric Diabetes Organization of Mulhouse. Those patients who are no longer able to exercize because of their physical condition start an effort rehabilitation program at the Organization. The study will evaluate the impact of this rehabilitation program on quality of life and appetency to physical activity for these children and teens.

Detailed Description

Because of a National Obesity Plan (2010-2013) initiated by the French government in charge of health, the Pediatric Obesity and Pediatric Diabetes Organization of Mulhouse was created in 2011.

This Organization is in charge of children or teens with:

• severe or growing obesity associated with respiratory, osteo-articular metabolic complications
• comorbidities worsened by obesity

The Organization and the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation department of the Mulhouse Hospital have worked together to create an effort rehabilitation program for obese or overweight children. The program, aiming movement rehabilitation, is based on reinforcement and endurance activities in a playful atmosphere and in an important motivational dimension. A medical examination is performed before the first session to confirm the patient's ability to follow an effort rehabilitation program. Each session is supervised by a teacher of adapted physical activity.

Conditions

Pediatric Obesity

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Effort rehabilitation program

An effort rehabilitation program designed for obese and overweight children or teens : 13 weekly sessions of 1hour30 then 1 session 2 months, 6 months and 12 months later.

This program is part of the routine practice of the Pediatric Obesity and Pediatric Diabetes Organization of Mulhouse.

Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ) of quality of life are completed by parents and children on the 1st and the 13th session, then 3 more times : 2, 6 and 12 months after the 13th session.

Eurofit tests of Physical Fitness performed on the 1st and the 13th session, then 3 more times : 2, 6 and 12 months after the 13th session.

Group Type: OTHER

Eurofit Tests of Physical Fitness (Eurofit)

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eurofit tests are a physical skills assessment. For the study, tests performed on the 1st and the 13th session of the program, then 3 more times : 2 months, 6 months and 12 months after the 13th weekly session.

Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ)

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The CHQ is a questionnaire about quality of life. The CHQ children form (CHQ-CF87) and the CHQ parent form (CHQ-PF50) are completed each time the Eurofit tests are performed : at the 1st and 13th weekly session then 2 months, 6 months and 12 months later.

Effort rehabilitation program

Intervention Type: OTHER

Part of the routine practice of the Pediatric Obesity and Pediatric Diabetes Organization of Mulhouse, the program consists in 13 sessions of 1hour30 of adapted physical activity. The physical activity in this program use cycles of games where rules are adapted to the overweight or obese children. The activities are performed in a playful atmosphere, for example using creative games like tchoukball or peteca, with each session aiming a specific objective each time.

Interventions

Eurofit Tests of Physical Fitness (Eurofit)

Eurofit tests are a physical skills assessment. For the study, tests performed on the 1st and the 13th session of the program, then 3 more times : 2 months, 6 months and 12 months after the 13th weekly session.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ)

The CHQ is a questionnaire about quality of life. The CHQ children form (CHQ-CF87) and the CHQ parent form (CHQ-PF50) are completed each time the Eurofit tests are performed : at the 1st and 13th weekly session then 2 months, 6 months and 12 months later.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Effort rehabilitation program

Part of the routine practice of the Pediatric Obesity and Pediatric Diabetes Organization of Mulhouse, the program consists in 13 sessions of 1hour30 of adapted physical activity. The physical activity in this program use cycles of games where rules are adapted to the overweight or obese children. The activities are performed in a playful atmosphere, for example using creative games like tchoukball or peteca, with each session aiming a specific objective each time.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• BMI > 97 percentile
• at least one of the following symptoms :

• respiratory functional signs
• orthopedic complications
• sleep apnea
• cardiovascular complications
• metabolic syndrome

Exclusion Criteria

• lack of motivation
• uncontrolled psychological issue
• ambulatory care more appropriate to treat the same issues
• any related psychiatric pathology likely to worsen with weight loss
• patient or family not committed to therapeutics program
• psychological inability to deal with separation
• behavior disorders making collective activity impossible

• Minimum Eligible Age: 10 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 16 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Groupe Hospitalier de la Region de Mulhouse et Sud Alsace

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

GHRMSA

Mulhouse, , France

Countries

France

Related Links

https://ecrin.app.unistra.fr/search/notice/view/ecrin-ori-343907

Study results

Other Identifiers

2014-A01695-42

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

GHRMSA 754

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id