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Case management via telephone counseling and SMS for weight maintenance in adolescent obesity: study concept of the TeAM program
BACKGROUND: In-patient obesity treatment programs for adolescents are associated with good success and substantial weight loss. However, maintaining weight loss remains a challenge. This article presents the concept of the TeAM (Telephone counseling as Adiposity Management) program. TeAM is an innov...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4472620/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26217500 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2052-9538-1-8 |
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author | Markert, Jana Herget, Sabine Marschke, Stefanie Lehnert, Thomas Falkenberg, Christian Blüher, Susann |
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description | BACKGROUND: In-patient obesity treatment programs for adolescents are associated with good success and substantial weight loss. However, maintaining weight loss remains a challenge. This article presents the concept of the TeAM (Telephone counseling as Adiposity Management) program. TeAM is an innovative, weight maintenance program for obese adolescents after in-patient therapy. It applies the case management approach in combination with new media (telephone counseling, web forum, and SMS messaging). Adolescents (14–18 years) were recruited via German rehabilitation hospitals. The intervention of the TeAM program consists of telephone counseling through trained case managers in order to maintain body weight reduction (expressed as BMI-SDS: body mass index standard deviation score) achieved during an in-patient obesity therapy. At baseline and after completion of the program, participants provide anthropometric measures (obtained by trained medical staff) as well as information on socio-demographics, usage of health services, psychosocial status, daily physical activity, media consumption, and eating behavior. The core of the intervention is regular telephone contact with the adolescent participants combined with tailored SMS messages. Telephone counseling is based on the systemic approach and addresses the topics of mental hygiene, physical activity, sedentary behavior, diet and eating behavior. RESULTS: Baseline data of the feasibility study: Thirty-eight adolescents were recruited for the feasibility study (14 male, 24 female; mean age 15.82 years); out of them, ten participants lived with a single parent; 68% planned to graduate from school without pre-requisites for university admission (O-level). The mean weight loss during in-patient treatment was 0.32 BMI-SDS units. Mean BMI at the start of intervention was 31.93 kg/m(2), corresponding to a mean BMI-SDS of 2.48. CONCLUSIONS: Weight maintenance treatment programs for adolescent obesity utilizing new media are a promising approach as they reach adolescents directly within their everyday life. TRIAL REGISTRATION: DRKS00004583. |
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spelling | pubmed-44726202015-07-27 Case management via telephone counseling and SMS for weight maintenance in adolescent obesity: study concept of the TeAM program Markert, Jana Herget, Sabine Marschke, Stefanie Lehnert, Thomas Falkenberg, Christian Blüher, Susann BMC Obes Research Article BACKGROUND: In-patient obesity treatment programs for adolescents are associated with good success and substantial weight loss. However, maintaining weight loss remains a challenge. This article presents the concept of the TeAM (Telephone counseling as Adiposity Management) program. TeAM is an innovative, weight maintenance program for obese adolescents after in-patient therapy. It applies the case management approach in combination with new media (telephone counseling, web forum, and SMS messaging). Adolescents (14–18 years) were recruited via German rehabilitation hospitals. The intervention of the TeAM program consists of telephone counseling through trained case managers in order to maintain body weight reduction (expressed as BMI-SDS: body mass index standard deviation score) achieved during an in-patient obesity therapy. At baseline and after completion of the program, participants provide anthropometric measures (obtained by trained medical staff) as well as information on socio-demographics, usage of health services, psychosocial status, daily physical activity, media consumption, and eating behavior. The core of the intervention is regular telephone contact with the adolescent participants combined with tailored SMS messages. Telephone counseling is based on the systemic approach and addresses the topics of mental hygiene, physical activity, sedentary behavior, diet and eating behavior. RESULTS: Baseline data of the feasibility study: Thirty-eight adolescents were recruited for the feasibility study (14 male, 24 female; mean age 15.82 years); out of them, ten participants lived with a single parent; 68% planned to graduate from school without pre-requisites for university admission (O-level). The mean weight loss during in-patient treatment was 0.32 BMI-SDS units. Mean BMI at the start of intervention was 31.93 kg/m(2), corresponding to a mean BMI-SDS of 2.48. CONCLUSIONS: Weight maintenance treatment programs for adolescent obesity utilizing new media are a promising approach as they reach adolescents directly within their everyday life. TRIAL REGISTRATION: DRKS00004583. BioMed Central 2014-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4472620/ /pubmed/26217500 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2052-9538-1-8 Text en © Markert et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Markert, Jana Herget, Sabine Marschke, Stefanie Lehnert, Thomas Falkenberg, Christian Blüher, Susann Case management via telephone counseling and SMS for weight maintenance in adolescent obesity: study concept of the TeAM program |
title | Case management via telephone counseling and SMS for weight maintenance in adolescent obesity: study concept of the TeAM program |
title_full | Case management via telephone counseling and SMS for weight maintenance in adolescent obesity: study concept of the TeAM program |
title_fullStr | Case management via telephone counseling and SMS for weight maintenance in adolescent obesity: study concept of the TeAM program |
title_full_unstemmed | Case management via telephone counseling and SMS for weight maintenance in adolescent obesity: study concept of the TeAM program |
title_short | Case management via telephone counseling and SMS for weight maintenance in adolescent obesity: study concept of the TeAM program |
title_sort | case management via telephone counseling and sms for weight maintenance in adolescent obesity: study concept of the team program |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4472620/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26217500 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2052-9538-1-8 |
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