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A telehealth intervention for ensuring continuity of care of pediatric obesity during the CoVid-19 lockdown in Italy

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Restriction measures adopted during the Coronavirus Disease-19 pandemic favored unhealthy behaviors. Tele-health offered the opportunity to pursue alternative ways of chronic diseases management. This retrospective study sought to determine the effects of a telehealth counsellin...

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Autores principales: Pecoraro, Pierluigi, Gallè, Francesca, Muscariello, Espedita, Di Mauro, Valentina, Daniele, Ornella, Forte, Simone, Ricchiuti, Roberta, Liguori, Giorgio, Valerio, Giuliana
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Publicado: The Italian Diabetes Society, the Italian Society for the Study of Atherosclerosis, the Italian Society of Human Nutrition and the Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Federico II University. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8496959/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34728130
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.numecd.2021.09.026
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author Pecoraro, Pierluigi
Gallè, Francesca
Muscariello, Espedita
Di Mauro, Valentina
Daniele, Ornella
Forte, Simone
Ricchiuti, Roberta
Liguori, Giorgio
Valerio, Giuliana
author_facet Pecoraro, Pierluigi
Gallè, Francesca
Muscariello, Espedita
Di Mauro, Valentina
Daniele, Ornella
Forte, Simone
Ricchiuti, Roberta
Liguori, Giorgio
Valerio, Giuliana
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description BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Restriction measures adopted during the Coronavirus Disease-19 pandemic favored unhealthy behaviors. Tele-health offered the opportunity to pursue alternative ways of chronic diseases management. This retrospective study sought to determine the effects of a telehealth counselling intervention during the lockdown to children and adolescents with obesity previously engaged in a family-based secondary care program in an outpatient clinic of South Italy. METHODS AND RESULTS: 117 out of 156 patients participated to the tele-health intervention. Participants underwent videocalls with each component of the multidisciplinary team to receive support in adopting adequate dietary habits and to practice exercise at home. They were included in a closed social group to watch age-adapted tutorials on healthy habits. 75 patients returned to the Center after the end of the lockdown, while only 7 patients who did not participate to the videocalls, took part to the follow-up. Body Mass Index and body composition were assessed in all these patients. BMI z score did not increase in both groups. However, a significant increase of fat mass was observed in the non-participating group (0.046), while the intervention group showed an increase of fat free mass (p < 0.000). CONCLUSION: Notwithstanding the limited sample size, the telehealth intervention allowed the maintenance of baseline weight status in participants, with an increase of fat-free mass. As the CoViD-19 pandemic moves forward, the increasing adoption of the new technologies may help the continuity of care, even in pediatric obesity treatment.
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spelling pubmed-84969592021-10-08 A telehealth intervention for ensuring continuity of care of pediatric obesity during the CoVid-19 lockdown in Italy Pecoraro, Pierluigi Gallè, Francesca Muscariello, Espedita Di Mauro, Valentina Daniele, Ornella Forte, Simone Ricchiuti, Roberta Liguori, Giorgio Valerio, Giuliana Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis Article BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Restriction measures adopted during the Coronavirus Disease-19 pandemic favored unhealthy behaviors. Tele-health offered the opportunity to pursue alternative ways of chronic diseases management. This retrospective study sought to determine the effects of a telehealth counselling intervention during the lockdown to children and adolescents with obesity previously engaged in a family-based secondary care program in an outpatient clinic of South Italy. METHODS AND RESULTS: 117 out of 156 patients participated to the tele-health intervention. Participants underwent videocalls with each component of the multidisciplinary team to receive support in adopting adequate dietary habits and to practice exercise at home. They were included in a closed social group to watch age-adapted tutorials on healthy habits. 75 patients returned to the Center after the end of the lockdown, while only 7 patients who did not participate to the videocalls, took part to the follow-up. Body Mass Index and body composition were assessed in all these patients. BMI z score did not increase in both groups. However, a significant increase of fat mass was observed in the non-participating group (0.046), while the intervention group showed an increase of fat free mass (p < 0.000). CONCLUSION: Notwithstanding the limited sample size, the telehealth intervention allowed the maintenance of baseline weight status in participants, with an increase of fat-free mass. As the CoViD-19 pandemic moves forward, the increasing adoption of the new technologies may help the continuity of care, even in pediatric obesity treatment. The Italian Diabetes Society, the Italian Society for the Study of Atherosclerosis, the Italian Society of Human Nutrition and the Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Federico II University. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2021-11-29 2021-10-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8496959/ /pubmed/34728130 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.numecd.2021.09.026 Text en © 2021 The Italian Diabetes Society, the Italian Society for the Study of Atherosclerosis, the Italian Society of Human Nutrition and the Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Federico II University. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Pecoraro, Pierluigi
Gallè, Francesca
Muscariello, Espedita
Di Mauro, Valentina
Daniele, Ornella
Forte, Simone
Ricchiuti, Roberta
Liguori, Giorgio
Valerio, Giuliana
A telehealth intervention for ensuring continuity of care of pediatric obesity during the CoVid-19 lockdown in Italy
title A telehealth intervention for ensuring continuity of care of pediatric obesity during the CoVid-19 lockdown in Italy
title_full A telehealth intervention for ensuring continuity of care of pediatric obesity during the CoVid-19 lockdown in Italy
title_fullStr A telehealth intervention for ensuring continuity of care of pediatric obesity during the CoVid-19 lockdown in Italy
title_full_unstemmed A telehealth intervention for ensuring continuity of care of pediatric obesity during the CoVid-19 lockdown in Italy
title_short A telehealth intervention for ensuring continuity of care of pediatric obesity during the CoVid-19 lockdown in Italy
title_sort telehealth intervention for ensuring continuity of care of pediatric obesity during the covid-19 lockdown in italy
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8496959/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34728130
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.numecd.2021.09.026
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