Clinical trial NCT01699295: Physical Activity and Academic Achievement Across the Curriculum (A+PAAC)
Official title: Physical Activity and Academic Achievement Across the Curriculum (A+PAAC)
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Intelligence
Obesity
Keywords: academic achievement
elementary school
physical activity
exercise
Lead sponsor: University of Kansas Medical Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2012-10-03
Enrollment: 584
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 7
Maximum age (years): 10
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: There is currently considerable interest in both improving academic achievement (No Child Left Behind) and reducing the rates of obesity and its associated negative health consequences in elementary school students. Increased physical activity (PA) offers a potential intervention to address both issues. Evidence is available which suggests an association of PA with both academic achievement and obesity, and an association between obesity and academic achievement.

To provide increased PA while maintaining academic instruction time, we developed a program we call "Physical Activity Across the Curriculum" (PAAC) in which regular classroom teachers were trained to deliver academic lessons using moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) for 20 minutes/d, 5 days/wk. This study is looking to compare academic achievement between students in elementary schools that participate in academic lessons taught through MVPA (PAAC) to students that do not (CON).


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Grade 2 or 3 Student at one of the randomly selected elementary schools
* Students that agree to complete assessments
* Signed parental consent form
* Signed child assent form

Exclusion Criteria:

* Students that do not agree to complete assessments

Primary outcomes:
measure: Changes in Academic Achievement in Elementary Students
timeFrame: Baseline to 3 Years
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Assessment of Cognitive Function
timeFrame: Baseline to 3 Years
measure: Body Mass Index (BMI)
timeFrame: Baseline to 3 Years
measure: Cardiovascular (CV) Fitness and Daily Physical Activity (PA)
timeFrame: Baseline to 3 Years
measure: Change in Attention-to-Task
timeFrame: Baseline to 3 Years
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Kansas City
country: United States
facility: University of Kansas Medical Center
state: Kansas
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Kansas Medical Center
name: Joseph Donnelly, EDD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Honas JJ, Willis EA, Herrmann SD, Greene JL, Washburn RA, Donnelly JE. Energy Expenditure and Intensity of Classroom Physical Activity in Elementary School Children. J Phys Act Health. 2016 Jun;13(6 Suppl 1):S53-6. doi: 10.1123/jpah.2015-0717.
citation: Willis EA, Ptomey LT, Szabo-Reed AN, Honas JJ, Lee J, Washburn RA, Donnelly JE. Length of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity bouts and cardio-metabolic risk factors in elementary school children. Prev Med. 2015 Apr;73:76-80. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2015.01.022. Epub 2015 Jan 31.
citation: Hansen DM, Herrmann SD, Lambourne K, Lee J, Donnelly JE. Linear/nonlinear relations of activity and fitness with children's academic achievement. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2014 Dec;46(12):2279-85. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000000362.
citation: Donnelly JE, Greene JL, Gibson CA, Sullivan DK, Hansen DM, Hillman CH, Poggio J, Mayo MS, Smith BK, Lambourne K, Herrmann SD, Scudder M, Betts JL, Honas JJ, Washburn RA. Physical activity and academic achievement across the curriculum (A + PAAC): rationale and design of a 3-year, cluster-randomized trial. BMC Public Health. 2013 Apr 8;13:307. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-307.