Maâthermes: Spa Treatment for Overweight and Obesity

Launched by ASSOCIATION FRANCAISE POUR LA RECHERCHE THERMALE · Dec 9, 2010

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ClinConnect Summary

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 health insurance. However, good quality scientific evidence is still required to support the benefit of spa therapy. An unpublished pilot study conducted in 2004, in several French spa resorts, showed that an additional 25% decrease in BMI was obtained for overweight and obese individuals enrolled in spa therapy as compared to individuals receiving classic weight management (-1.4 kg/m² and -1.05 kg/...

Gender

ALL

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • 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 Criteria:
• • 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