Clinical trial NCT01633918: FeetEnergy Approach to Increase Physical Activity and Reduce Screen Time in Adolescents
Official title: Integrating Internet-supported FeetEnergy Approach in Health Education Lessons to Increase Physical Activity and Reduce Screen Time in Adolescents
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Physical Activity
Sedentary Behavior
Active Commuting
Psychosocial Factors
Parental Interference
Keywords: intervention
health education
physical activity
sedentary behavior
health promotion
evaluation
RE-AIM
Lead sponsor: UKK Institute
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland
First posted: 2012-07-04
Enrollment: 1291
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 13
Maximum age (years): 15
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to find out whether an Internet-supported FeetEnergy approach and two home works integrated in three health education lessons can increase adolescents' active commuting to school and leisure-time physical activity and decrease their screen time.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* student's informed consent and an approval from his/her parent

Exclusion Criteria:

* no informed consent from the student and no approval from his/her parent

Primary outcomes:
measure: change from baseline in meeting physical activity recommendation at 1 month
timeFrame: baseline and 1 month
measure: change from baseline in physical activity recommendation at 7 months
timeFrame: baseline and 7 months
measure: change from baseline in meeting screen time recommendation at 1 month
timeFrame: baseline and 1 month
measure: change from baseline in meeting screen time recommendation at 7 month
timeFrame: baseline and 7 month
Secondary outcomes:
measure: change from baseline in psychosocial factors related to physical activity at 1 month
timeFrame: baseline and 1 month
measure: change from baseline in parental interference with physical activity of their child at 1 month
timeFrame: baseline and 1 month
measure: change from baseline in psychosocial factors related to screen time at 1 month
timeFrame: baseline and 1 month
measure: change from baseline in parental interference with screen time of their child at 1 month
timeFrame: baseline and 1 month
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Espoo
country: Finland
facility: Aalto University
state: Aalto
city: Tampere
country: Finland
facility: The UKK Institute for health Promotion Research
Study officials:
affiliation: UKK Institute
name: Minna M Aittasalo, Dsc
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Aittasalo M, Jussila AM, Tokola K, Sievanen H, Vaha-Ypya H, Vasankari T. Kids Out; evaluation of a brief multimodal cluster randomized intervention integrated in health education lessons to increase physical activity and reduce sedentary behavior among eighth graders. BMC Public Health. 2019 Apr 17;19(1):415. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-6737-x.
citation: Jussila AM, Vasankari T, Paronen O, Sievanen H, Tokola K, Vaha-Ypya H, Broberg A, Aittasalo M. KIDS OUT! Protocol of a brief school-based intervention to promote physical activity and to reduce screen time in a sub-cohort of Finnish eighth graders. BMC Public Health. 2015 Jul 10;15:634. doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-2007-8.