Clinical trial NCT01291238: School Intervention With Daily Physical Activity and Healthy Food for Students With an Intellectual Disability.
Official title: Lifestyle Related Health and Health Promoting Activities for Youths With Intellectual Disabilities
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Weight Loss
Food Habits
Mental Retardation
Keywords: learning disability
blood lipids
cardio metabolic risk factors
upper secondary school for learning disability students
adolescents
cardio respiratory fitness
absorptiometry photos
Lead sponsor: Karolinska Institutet
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Region Stockholm
name: City of Stockholm Competence Fund
name: Lindeparkens upper secondary school for intellectual disability students
name: Mälardalen University
name: Health Care Sciences Postgraduate School at the Karolinska Institutet
First posted: 2011-02-08
Enrollment: 145
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 16
Maximum age (years): 22
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: A whole of school intervention with daily physical activity and healthy food for students with intellectual disabilities. The aim is to provide plenty of concrete examples of healthy life style choices and using school personnel and peers as role models. This will presumably result in healthier weight, better fitness and not least in new familiar healthy habits.

Detailed description: Youth with an intellectual disability are reported more sedentary and more often overweight than non intellectual disability youth. Cardio metabolic risk factors are observed more frequent and at an earlier age among young people with intellectual disability. The school reaches all students and they spend the main part of their day in the school milieu hence examples of healthy lifestyle can be provided there.

This intervention increased physical activity with daily scheduled physical activity. At least one lesson each week was at the gym. Food provided in the school environment was considered from content of sugar and fat and ónly healthy food choices was available at school. This included all school activities, both in the school area and on school activities out in the community. It included home economic lessons as well as the school cafeterias supply and school lunch content.

To increase vegetable intake a special designed plate was used for lunch according the "plate model". In addition, the plate model was one theme during art class.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* mild/moderate intellectual disability
* students at the upper secondary schools for intellectual disability students

Exclusion Criteria:

* severe intellectual disability
* obesity related syndromes
* major physical disabilities

Primary outcomes:
measure: Decrease in cardio metabolic risk factors
timeFrame: 2 years
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Increase in physical fitness
timeFrame: 2 years
measure: Increased vegetable intake
timeFrame: at least 1 year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Stockholm
country: Sweden
facility: Karolinska Institutet, Department of clinical science, intervention and technology. Division of pediatrics, B62
Study officials:
affiliation: Karolinska Institutet
name: Claude Marcus, Professor
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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