Clinical trial NCT04956003: Optimizing Cardiometabolic Health, Cognition and Academic Performance in Children (HAPHC)
Official title: Optimizing Cardiometabolic Health, Cognition and Academic Performance With Happy Children (HAPHC) Using School-based Physical Activity
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Physical Activity
Cardiometabolic Health
Lead sponsor: Medical University of Graz
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Kristiania University College
First posted: 2021-07-09
Enrollment: 750
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 6
Maximum age (years): 12
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE

Brief summary: Children and young people are moving less and less. In combination with an unhealthy diet, this has led to a sharp increase in overweight and obesity among children worldwide. Very often, physical illnesses occur in adolescence that can be directly attributed to the overweight and obesity. In order to protect children from these consequences in time, a daily exercise unit of 45 minutes is built into their learning. This exercise will take place in addition to physical education classes as part of your child's school day and will be conducted by a teacher. We will examine the children of the participating schools with regard to health-related characteristics.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* students in participating schools

Exclusion Criteria:

* none

Primary outcomes:
measure: Cardiovascular changes - heart rate
timeFrame: 3 years (4 yearly measurement time-points)
measure: Cardiovascular changes - blood pressure
timeFrame: 3 years (4 yearly measurement time-points)
measure: Microcirculation
timeFrame: 3 years (4 yearly measurement time-points)
measure: Changes in subcutaneous adipose tissue
timeFrame: 3 years (4 yearly measurement time-points)
measure: Changes in physical fitness - handgrip
timeFrame: 3 years (4 yearly measurement time-points)
measure: Changes in physical fitness - running
timeFrame: 3 years (4 yearly measurement time-points)
measure: Changes in physical fitness - coordination
timeFrame: 3 years (4 yearly measurement time-points)
measure: Changes in cognitive performance parameters - concentration
timeFrame: 3 years (4 yearly measurement time-points)
measure: Changes in cognitive performance parameters - reading
timeFrame: 3 years (4 yearly measurement time-points)
measure: Changes in cognitive performance parameters - mathematics
timeFrame: 3 years (4 yearly measurement time-points)
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Graz
country: Austria
facility: Medical University of Graz
state: Styria
Study officials:
affiliation: Medical University of Graz
name: Nandu Goswami, Dr.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Fredriksen PM, Hjelle OP, Mamen A, Meza TJ, Westerberg AC. The health Oriented pedagogical project (HOPP) - a controlled longitudinal school-based physical activity intervention program. BMC Public Health. 2017 Apr 28;17(1):370. doi: 10.1186/s12889-017-4282-z.
citation: Goswami N, Hansen D, Gumze G, Brix B, Schmid-Zalaudek K, Fredriksen PM. Health and Academic Performance With Happy Children: A Controlled Longitudinal Study Based on the HOPP Project. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2022 Jun 3;9:820827. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.820827. eCollection 2022.