Clinical trial NCT01277224: Effectiveness of a Physical Activity Intervention on the Obesity of Schoolchildren
Official title: Effectiveness of a Leisure Time Physical Activity Intervention on the Overweight and the Obesity in Schoolchildren. The Cuenca's Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Physical Activity
Obesity
Children
Keywords: physical activity
obesity
adiposity
children
blood lipids
blood pressure
randomized controlled trials
Lead sponsor: University of Castilla-La Mancha
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2011-01-14
Enrollment: 1200
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 8
Maximum age (years): 11
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a recreational physical activity intervention (RPAI) for reducing the prevalence of overweight/obesity and other cardiovascular risk factors

Detailed description: The prevalence of overweight in Spanish children in the puberty age is among the highest in the world and increasing quickly. The investigators recently evaluated an after-school program of recreational physical activity to control obesity and other cardiovascular risk factors in primary school children in Cuenca. This program, known as the Movi program, reduced adiposity, increased serum apolipoprotein (apo) A-I concentration and reduced apo B concentration over one-year period.

Though the intervention MOVI had great acceptance between the children and his families, and it demonstrated to be effective opposite to the obesity, his results were relatively modest. For it, our hypothesis of work, which justifies this new project, is that a major intensity of the intervention, and a major weekly duration extending this one to the weekend, it might improve the efficiency on the obesity.

Eligibility criteria: The Boards of Governors (community participatory organ in each school) and the children's parents will inform of the study's aims and methods, and give their written consent to the children's participation. Similarly, the study will present classroom-by-classroom to the children, and their oral consent will obtain. Participant children will be free of serious learning difficulties, or physical or mental disorders, that could impede participation in the scheduled physical activities.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Skin-fold thickness
timeFrame: 1 year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Physical activity, physical fitness, sleep, and quality of life
timeFrame: 1 year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Health and Social Research Centre, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain
name: Vicente Martinez-Vizcaíno, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Nystrom CD, Henriksson P, Martinez-Vizcaino V, Medrano M, Cadenas-Sanchez C, Arias-Palencia NM, Lof M, Ruiz JR, Labayen I, Sanchez-Lopez M, Ortega FB. Does Cardiorespiratory Fitness Attenuate the Adverse Effects of Severe/Morbid Obesity on Cardiometabolic Risk and Insulin Resistance in Children? A Pooled Analysis. Diabetes Care. 2017 Nov;40(11):1580-1587. doi: 10.2337/dc17-1334. Epub 2017 Sep 22.
citation: Martinez-Vizcaino V, Sanchez-Lopez M, Notario-Pacheco B, Salcedo-Aguilar F, Solera-Martinez M, Franquelo-Morales P, Lopez-Martinez S, Garcia-Prieto JC, Arias-Palencia N, Torrijos-Nino C, Mora-Rodriguez R, Rodriguez-Artalejo F. Gender differences on effectiveness of a school-based physical activity intervention for reducing cardiometabolic risk: a cluster randomized trial. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2014 Dec 10;11:154. doi: 10.1186/s12966-014-0154-4.
citation: Martinez-Vizcaino V, Sanchez-Lopez M, Salcedo-Aguilar F, Notario-Pacheco B, Solera-Martinez M, Moya-Martinez P, Franquelo-Morales P, Lopez-Martinez S, Rodriguez-Artalejo F; MOVI-2 group. Protocol of a randomized cluster trial to assess the effectiveness of the MOVI-2 program on overweight prevention in schoolchildren. Rev Esp Cardiol (Engl Ed). 2012 May;65(5):427-33. doi: 10.1016/j.recesp.2011.12.008. Epub 2012 Mar 10. English, Spanish.