Efficacy of Parent-Child Dieting Plans Incorporating Medifast Meal Replacements for Weight Loss
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Brief summary
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1. Does a joint parent-child dieting approach, as opposed to an individually-based approach, improve weight loss outcomes? 2. Is a diet which includes Medifast meal replacements as efficacious as a non-supplemented Food Guide Pyramid-based diet (reference diet) in achieving better adherence to the diet, initial weight loss, reduction in % body fat, and weight maintenance? 3. Does regular use of Medifast meal replacements, in conjunction with a Food Guide Pyramid-based diet, result in significantly better compliance, greater dietary satisfaction, dietary quality, and palatability than the reference diet? 4. Do children who have lost weight using Medifast meal replacements, as an adjunct to a Food Guide Pyramid-based diet, achieve health benefits compared to baseline values and are these health benefits greater than those obtained following the reference diet?
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00198744
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 80 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Medifast FIT! for Kids Behavioral
- standard recommendations for dietary intake in children Behavioral
- both diet plans with and without a parent dieting Behavioral
Behavioral
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 8 Years to 15 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Jun 2004 (Type not available)
- Primary completion
- Not listed
- Completion
- Jun 2006 (Type not available)
- Last update posted
- Sep 20, 2005
2004 – 2006
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | Baltimore | Maryland | 21205 | — |
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