Clinical Trial Details
— Status: Completed
Administrative data
| NCT number |
NCT03397628 |
| Other study ID # |
FIFA11fh |
| Secondary ID |
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| Status |
Completed |
| Phase |
N/A
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| First received |
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| Last updated |
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| Start date |
August 1, 2016 |
| Est. completion date |
December 30, 2020 |
Study information
| Verified date |
December 2022 |
| Source |
University of Southern Denmark |
| Contact |
n/a |
| Is FDA regulated |
No |
| Health authority |
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| Study type |
Interventional
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Clinical Trial Summary
Proposed action: To investigate the effect of an innovative and easily implementable
football-based health education programme on well-being, self-esteem, health knowledge and
physical fitness for 10-12-year old school children. The programme has been running in 22
countries in Africa and South America and is now being adapted to the Western World. The
first step was to run a pilot implementation for more than 600 school children in Copenhagen,
Frederiksberg, Roskilde and Frederikssund in the school year 2015-2016. From august 2016 to a
nationwide implementation for 30,000 school children is started in Denmark and The Faroe
Islands.
Description:
Proposed action: To investigate the effect of an innovative and easily implementable
football-based health education programme on well-being, self-esteem, health knowledge and
physical fitness for 10-12-year old school children. The programme has been running in 22
countries in Africa and South America and is now being adapted to the Western World. The
first step was to run a pilot implementation for more than 600 school children in Copenhagen,
Frederiksberg, Roskilde and Frederikssund in the school year 2015-2016. From august 2016 to a
nationwide implementation for 30,000 school children is started in Denmark and The Faroe
Islands. The programme is developed and implemented in a close collaboration between the
University of Southern Denmark, University of Copenhagen, The Danish Football Association and
the international football association FIFA, and the ambitious scope of the project is to
continue this collaboration in a large-scale implementation involving up to 1 million
children in up to 30 Western Countries.
As in Africa and South America FIFA is providing all equipment for the programme, including
footballs, cones, bibs, training manuals etc. FIFA and the Danish FA have employed a
co-funded national project leader in Denmark for a 3-year period, starting August 2015.
The University of Southern Denmark and the Danish FA is responsible for the training manuals,
coaching courses for school teachers and the research related the nationwide implementation.
Main project activities: The FIFA 11 for Health in Denmark programme is being delivered
30,000 school children aged 10-12 (5th grade pupils) in the nationwide implementation phase.
The programme is being delivered by two school teachers (one female and one male teacher) in
each of the schools, and includes two weekly 45-min sessions per week over an 11-week period.
The football-based health education programme incorporates fun, joyful and social small-sided
games and pair-exercises along with specific focus on one important health message in week.
Girls and boys will play together, and the exercises are conducted so that all the children
will have a high involvement, success rate and intensity, also the unfit, obese, and
non-sport club active. At the same time the exercises are constructed with special focus on
how to be a good friend and a team player, how to demonstrate empathy and skill in helping
others both individually and as a group, and how to avoid bullying and how to think
positively. The 11 health messages cover the most important and prominent health challenges
of the Western World, including importance social wellbeing, mental health, physical
activity, diet, hygiene and risk-behavior such as abuse of alcohol and drugs.
