Cost-effectiveness of a community-delivered multicomponent intervention compared with enhanced standard care of obese adolescents: cost-utility analysis alongside a randomised controlled trial (the HELP trial).

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To undertake a cost-utility analysis of a motivational multicomponent lifestyle-modification intervention in a community setting (the Healthy Eating Lifestyle Programme (HELP)) compared with enhanced standard care.

Design

Cost-utility analysis alongside a randomised controlled trial.

Setting

Community settings in Greater London, England.

Participants

174 young people with obesity aged 12-19 years.

Interventions

Intervention participants received 12 one-to-one sessions across 6 months, addressing lifestyle behaviours and focusing on motivation to change and self-esteem rather than weight change, delivered by trained graduate health workers in community settings. Control participants received a single 1-hour one-to-one nurse-delivered session pro

SUBMITTER: Panca M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6124607 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature