Clinical trial NCT03906851: Active and Healthy Kids in Telemark - a School Based Health Promoting Intervention
Official title: Effects of a School Based Health Promoting Intervention With Physical Activity and Nutrition Among 8th Graders in Telemark
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Academic Performance
Physical Fitness
Physical Activity
Nutrition
Keywords: School
Health
Academic performance
Physical activity
Lead sponsor: University of South-Eastern Norway
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-04-08
Enrollment: 840
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 11
Maximum age (years): 14
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The study examine possible changes in physical activity, nutrition, and psychosocial health following the intervention "Active and Healthy Kids in Telemark". The intervention schools will received the intervention, whereas the control schools will continue as usual.

Detailed description: School based, health promoting interventions with focus on increase physical activity and improved nutrition seems to be a good solution to the challenges with low physical activity level, poor physical fitness, poor nutrition and psychosocial health challenges among children and adolescents. Low physical activity levels and physical fitness is recognized as one of the major public health challenges in the 21st century, and it negatively affects cognitive skills and academic performances. Providing school based health promoting interventions makes it easier to reach all children and adolescents regardless of social and cultural background, and hence reduce social inequalities in health.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Pupil 8th grade

Exclusion Criteria:

* Inadequate language skills to complete questionnaire

Primary outcomes:
measure: Physical activity (counts per minute)
timeFrame: 4 days
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Physical fitness: Andersen test
timeFrame: 10 minutes
measure: Physical fitness: standing long jump
timeFrame: 2 minutes
measure: Nutrition and diet: questionnaire
timeFrame: 5 minutes
measure: Health-related Quality of Life
timeFrame: 10 minutes
measure: Academic performance: grades in subjects Norwegian, mathematics and English
timeFrame: 45 minutes
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Bø
country: Norway
facility: University College of Southeast Norway
state: Telemark
Study officials:
affiliation: University College of Southeast Norway
name: Solfrid Bratland-Sanda, PhD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
References:
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citation: Bratland-Sanda S, Schmidt SK, Reinboth MS, Vrabel KA. Under pressure to exercise: a cross-sectional study of characteristics and predictors of compulsive exercise in early adolescents. J Eat Disord. 2022 Nov 5;10(1):156. doi: 10.1186/s40337-022-00686-8.