Clinical Trial: Development of Eating Disorders Symptoms Among Children
Study Status: Enrolling by invitation
Recruit Status: Enrolling by invitation
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: Development of Eating Disorders Symptoms Among Children Who Took Part in Family-based Obesity Treatment and Among Their Siblings
Brief Summary:
Randomized Clinical Trial, the research will be composed of two parts in order to examine the research question: a combination of controlled randomized retrospective research and prospective cohort research
Prospective Cohort Research:
The research groups - families coming for treatment in "Active Maccabi" clinics in the Northern Region, Israel. Approximately 30 families.
Retrospective Random Controlled Research
- The research group - families that have completed an intervention program of "Active Maccabi" Northern Region, Israel,within the past two to three years. The families will be requested to attend a follow-up meeting of all family members in which they will answer questionnaires. Approximately 66 families.
- The control groups - families who did not participate in the program who have a child between the age 7-14 who has suffered from obesity/weight (over the past 2-3 years), in correlation with the child in the intervention group. Approximately 66 families.
Hypotheses of the research:
- Status of the weight of the child being treated and of his siblings will be higher than that at the end of the program.
- Indication of the obesogenic environment of families participating in the program will be lower in comparison with families not participating in the program.
- The rate of eating disorder symptoms among children who participated in the program will be lower in comparison with those of the obese/overweight child in families who were n