Grant-Funded Projects Rehabilitation Sciences
Effects of the obesity curriculum from the health training programme of the German Federal Pension Insurance in orthopaedic and rheumatological rehabilitation - CurrAdipositas
Background
Overweight and obesity are highly relevant to health and are also becoming increasingly important in medical rehabilitation - usually as secondary diagnoses. Patient education on nutrition, exercise and behaviour modification is part of the basic treatment for obesity (S3 guideline obesity version 5.0; DAG, 2024) and part of the multimodal rehabilitation programme. However, no evaluated interdisciplinary educational programme for medical rehabilitation is currently available.
The aim of our project is therefore to evaluate the ‘Obesity Curriculum’ from the health training programme of the German Federal Pension Insurance.
Methods
We conduct a quasi-experimental control group study with four measurement occasions (patient reported outcomes; admission inpatient rehab, discharge, 3- and 6-month follow-up) in 500 orthopaedic or rheumatological rehabilitants with a BMI ≥ 30. In addition, we are exploring facilitators and barriers to long-term weight reduction after rehabilitation using qualitative interviews.
Cooperation
Klinikum Bad Bramstedt GmbH (Dr. Ricarda Wesner, Dr. Charlotte Wiedwald)
RehaCentrum Hamburg GmbH (Dr. Hilke Weichert)
Contact
- PD Dr. Karin Meng
E-Mail: meng_k@ukw.de