Adoption of the children’s obesity clinic’s treatment (TCOCT) protocol into another Danish pediatric obesity treatment clinic

BMC Pediatrics

Jens-Christian Holm³  Michael Gamborg²  Mette Valentiner¹  Jesper Andersen³  Grete Teilmann³  Birgitte Højgaard¹  Sebastian W Most¹ 

[1]The Children’s Obesity Clinic, Department of Pediatrics, Nordsjællands Hospital, Hillerød, Copenhagen University, Dyrehavevej 29, Hillerød, DK-3400, Denmark

[2]Institute of Preventive Medicine, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, The Capital Region, Copenhagen, Denmark

[3]Institute of Internal Medicine, the Medical Faculty, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

关键词: Treatment;    Puberty;    Obesity;    Child;    BMI;    Adolescence;   

Others  :  1138388
DOI  :  10.1186/s12887-015-0332-9

 received in 2014-04-25, accepted in 2015-02-06,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

Treating severe childhood obesity has proven difficult with inconsistent treatment results. This study reports the results of the implementation of a childhood obesity chronic care treatment protocol.

Methods

Patients aged 5 to 18 years with a body mass index (BMI) above the 99th percentile for sex and age were eligible for inclusion. At baseline patients’ height, weight, and tanner stages were measured, as well as parents’ socioeconomic status (SES) and family structure. Parental weight and height were self-reported. An individualised treatment plan including numerous advices was developed in collaboration with the patient and the family. Patients’ height and weight were measured at subsequent visits. There were no exclusion criteria.

Results

Three-hundred-thirteen (141 boys) were seen in the clinic in the period of February 2010 to March 2013. At inclusion, the median age of patients was 11.1 years and the median BMI standard deviation score (SDS) was 3.24 in boys and 2.85 in girls. After 1 year of treatment, the mean BMI SDS difference was −0.30 (95% CI: −0.39; −0.21, p < 0.0001) in boys and −0.19 (95% CI: −0.25; −0.13, p < 0.0001) in girls. After 2 years of treatment, the mean BMI SDS difference was −0.40 (95% CI: −0.56; −0.25, p < 0.0001) in boys and −0.24 (95% CI: −0.33; −0.15, p < 0.0001) in girls. During intervention 120 patients stopped treatment. Retention rates were 0.76 (95% CI: 0.71; 0.81) after one year and 0.57 (95% CI: 0.51; 0.63) after two years of treatment. Risk of dropout was independent of baseline characteristics. Median time spent by health care professionals was 4.5 hours per year per patient and the mean visit interval time was 2.7 months. The reductions in BMI SDS were dependent on gender, parental BMI, and family structure in girls, but independent of baseline BMI SDS, age, co-morbidity, SES, pubertal stage, place of referral, hours of treatment per year, and mean visit interval time.

Conclusions

The systematic use of the TCOCT protocol reduced the degree of childhood obesity with acceptable retention rates with a modest time-investment by health professionals.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Most et al.; licensee BioMed Central.

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