TY  - JOUR
A1  - Warschburger, Petra
A1  - Zitzmann, Jana
T1  - Does an Age-Specific Treatment Program Augment the Efficacy of a Cognitive-Behavioral Weight Loss Program in Adolescence and Young Adulthood?
T2  - Nutrients
N2  - Research on weight-loss interventions in emerging adulthood is warranted. Therefore, a cognitive-behavioral group treatment (CBT), including development-specific topics for adolescents and young adults with obesity (YOUTH), was developed. In a controlled study, we compared the efficacy of this age-specific CBT group intervention to an age-unspecific CBT group delivered across ages in an inpatient setting. The primary outcome was body mass index standard deviation score (BMI-SDS) over the course of one year; secondary outcomes were health-related and disease-specific quality of life (QoL). 266 participants aged 16 to 21 years (65% females) were randomized. Intention-to-treat (ITT) and per-protocol analyses (PPA) were performed. For both group interventions, we observed significant and clinically relevant improvements in BMI-SDS and QoL over the course of time with small to large effect sizes. Contrary to our hypothesis, the age-specific intervention was not superior to the age-unspecific CBT-approach.
KW  - adolescents
KW  - emerging adults
KW  - behavioral weight loss
KW  - obesity
KW  - controlled trial
KW  - quality of life
Y1  - 2019
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/43941
SN  - 2072-6643
VL  - 2019
IS  - 11
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  -