De Coaching op Leefstijl (CooL) Interventie voor Obesitas

The Coaching on Lifestyle (CooL) intervention is a new Dutch CLI, in which the lifestyle coach coaches participants with (a high risk of) obesity. In group and individual sessions the lifestyle coach addresses themes such as sleep, stress, physical activity, and dietary behaviours. The goal of the intervention is to structurally embed lifestyle coaching in the health care
process and to promote sustained lifestyle changes in the participants related to physical activity and diet.

Hypotheses are that the long-term supervision of the CooL intervention will be related to beneficial changes in the participants¡¯ energy-balance related behaviours, body composition, and quality of life. Besides, the goal of the intervention is to structurally embed lifestyle coaching in the health care process.

Baseline:

Children: objectively measured BMI and self-reported quality of life, the quality of motivation for physical activity and for diet, physical activity level, dietary behaviours, sleeping behaviour, personality, cognitive determinants, general parenting, and parenting styles.



Adults: objectively measured BMI, self-reported quality of life, and biomedical data (Hb1AC, blood pressure, and fasting glucose), the quality of motivation for physical activity and for diet, physical activity level, dietary behaviours, personality, and cognitive determinants.



32 to 44 weeks follow-up:

Children: objectively measured BMI and self-reported quality of life, the quality of motivation for physical activity and for diet, physical activity level, dietary behaviours, sleeping behaviour, personality, cognitive determinants, and process measures (number of participants and drop-out).



Adults: objectively measured BMI, self-reported quality of life, biomedical data (Hb1AC, blood pressure, and fasting glucose), the quality of motivation for physical activity and for diet, physical activity level, dietary behaviours, personality, cognitive determinants, and process measures (number of participants and drop-out).



18 months follow-up:

Children: objectively measured BMI and self-reported quality of life, the quality of motivation for physical activity and for diet, physical activity level, dietary behaviours, sleeping behaviour, personality, cognitive determinants, general parenting, and parenting styles.



Adults: self-reported quality of life, the quality of motivation for physical activity and for diet, physical activity level, dietary behaviours, personality, and cognitive determinants.

The Coaching on Lifestyle (CooL) intervention is a new Dutch CLI, in which the lifestyle coach coaches participants with (a high risk of) obesity. In group and individual sessions the lifestyle coach addresses themes such as sleep, stress, physical activity, and dietary behaviours.

In the adult basic program, participants are coached for 6 to 8 months (see Table 2 for an overview of the sessions). The groups consist of 4 to 12 participants. Adults receive 8 group sessions (of 90 minutes) and 4 individual sessions (of 30 minutes). The child program consists of 8 group sessions with parents, 4 individual sessions at home with the family, and around 6 telephone sessions with the child. The focus is to provide the parents tips for positive parenting styles and for changing their child¡¯s lifestyle into a healthier one. The adolescent program is a combination of the children and adults program, with a greater emphasis on social influences of, for example, peers.