EQUILIBRE: an educational programme for obese children and adolescents

Equilibre was created in 1999 in order to develop and evaluate new therapeutic approaches. Methods: The concept is that healthy lifestyle can be learned if brought in equation with the daily environment of the patient. We are using a behaviouristic approach, based on outgoing, collective patient management by a multidisciplinary team. The programme is running for 12 months. Inclusion criteria are age between 6 and 16 Results: Jun 03, 185 patients have participated to the programme. Overall rate of patients losing weight was 60% (n=111), 9.7% (n=18) increased their BMI and 30.3% (n=56) dropped out. In order to an…