Status:
COMPLETED
Maâthermes: Spa Treatment for Overweight and Obesity
Lead Sponsor:
Association Francaise pour la Recherche Thermale
Collaborating Sponsors:
Université Joseph Fourier
Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2
Conditions:
Overweight
Obesity
Eligibility:
All Genders
20-70 years
Phase:
PHASE3
Brief Summary
Public health campaigns and industry-supported changes in our food supply have obviously failed to control the epidemic to date. However, customized life style modification programs (LSMP) comprising ...
Detailed Description
Spa therapy, or mineral spring water therapy, is a 3-week LSMP that has been shown to be sufficiently effective to control overweight and obesity to be approved and subsidized by French national healt...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Both sexes, more than 20 years and less than 70 years old patients with overweight (BMI\>27) or obesity (BMI\<35). Available for a spa treatment during 18 days, and a follow-up period of 14 months
- Voluntary to participate to the study,informed consent form signed after appropriate information
- Affiliation to the social security system or equivalent
Exclusion
- Previous spa therapy for weight problems
- Pregnancy
- Major eating disorders (compulsive over eating)
- Poor french proficiency
- Involvement in another clinical trial
- Other contra-indications to spa therapy (severe general weakness, inflammatory bowel disease, cirrhosis, severe disability, psychosis and dementia, or Immunodeficiency, cancer in progress).
- Refusal to consent
- Refusal of spa treatment
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
March 1 2007
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
December 1 2010
Estimated Enrollment :
400 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01258114
Start Date
March 1 2007
End Date
December 1 2010
Last Update
December 10 2010
Active Locations (5)
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1
Cabinet Médical
Brides-les-Bains, France, 73000
2
Cabinet Medical
Capvern-les-Bains, France, 65000
3
Cabinet Medical
Vals-les-Bains, France, 07000
4
Cabinet Medical
Vichy, France, 03000