The aim of behavior-based behavioral therapy in children (FABO) is to design and evaluate the social and family support networks of obese children so that the child can implement weight loss mechanisms.
FABO study shows that family-based behavioral therapy delivered in an outpatient clinic significantly improves weight-related effects (weight loss) compared with treatment in children from 6 to 18 years of age are severely obese. The FABO study was conducted in the Outpatient Clinic, University Hospital Hockland and represents the first attempt to provide family-based behavioral therapy in the Norwegian public health system.
‘The results showed that family-based therapy (FABO study) lost significantly more weight than conventional therapy.’
Researchers from the Bergen Pediatric Obesity Research Group along with a team from the University of Washington developed this treatment that turns treatment previously offered by research clinics into a system conventional medical system, with a positive effect on weight loss in participating children with obesity. . Results showed that family-based therapy (FABO study) lost significantly more weight than conventional therapyHanna Flakoy Skjakodegard, a researcher in UiB’s Department of Health Sciences said.
The purpose of weight loss is to reduce the risk of comorbidities such as diabetes or other metabolic diseases. Behavioral therapy that includes both school and recreational activities has an impact on the impact of obesity and has an intensive treatment program of 17 sessions over 6 months for children with obesity.
The FABO study’s treatment model will now be incorporated into the eBATTLE Obesity study, a Norwegian multicenter study examining the effects of family-based behavioral therapy in combination with drug treatment.
Source: Medindia
