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The weight of the weight! including the parents in the adolescent weight centered group follow up

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

S. Shehu-Brovina ,
C. Chamay Weber  and
F. Narring
S. Shehu-Brovina
Affiliation:
General Psychiatry, Geneva, Switzerland Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service/Pediatric Department, Geneva, Switzerland
C. Chamay Weber
Affiliation:
Pediatric Department, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
F. Narring
Affiliation:
Pediatric Department, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

Abstract

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The weight gain prevalence in child and adolescents is rapidly increasing and presents a major health problem with also the psychiatric impact. In Switzerland, one child of five is in weight excess. The parents of the obese adolescents are also in sufferance.

In 2007, the Federal Commission aprouved the project of the Swiss Society of the Pediatrics, applied in the Geneva University Hospitals as Contrepoids - pediatric weight management programe. It includes the psycho-educative groups (14 to 18 groups), one or two sport activities a weak and the “parents” groups (8–14 groups).

The effect of these programs is measured mainly by the weight evolution.

As far as we know, there are no other criteria of the evaluation of these programs. Or, it is known that just à small number of these children regain their normal weight.

Purpose

To explore the parents’ representations of te wheight problem after one year To evaluate if this changement of the representations has un effect in the well being of the adolescents, their parents and their family relations.

Methods

Two focus groups were conducted at the end of a one year Family-Based Behavioural Treatment (FBBT) for obese teenagers (12–18 years), involving 16 parents. Four Open-ended questions were used.

Results

Parents reported that the participation in a group program allowed them to reduce their sense of isolation. It helped them to decrease their sense of guilt and also in the transition from childhood to adolescence. Less attention was payed to the diet.

Type
P03-159
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 26 , Issue S2: Abstracts of the 19th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2011 , pp. 1328
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2011
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