Clinical Trials Logo

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficacy of a schoolgarden intervention on pupils food literacy, climate literacy, schoolmotivation and physical activity. The study will also investigate the contextual characteristics in the garden using systematic observations and the pupil´s experience of the intervention with focus-groups interviews.


Clinical Trial Description

Globally, the prevalence of obesity and severe obesity among children and youth is rising. Inactivity and unhealthy diet are often associated with obesity which can lead to detrimental health outcomes such as cardiovascular disease and type-2 diabetes. Schools are considered a key setting for promoting children and adolescents' food literacy, climate literacy, physical activity and to improve their mental and social health. Interventions in schools have a broad impact because all children spent the majority of their waking hours in school independent of their socio-economic- and cultural background. FoodACT aims to invetigate an well-established schoolgarden intervention on pupils food literacy, climate literacy, schoolmotivation and physical activity. School gardens create an enabling environment for increasing student's food literacy and climate literacy, where an active component is that the pupils cultivate and prepare their own crops through a program that extends through nine months and therefore becomes an integrated part of the pupils schooling. The children's' physical activty is affected without it being the focus of the school garden programs. Pupils get up from the chair in the classroom, use active transportation for example by foot or bike to the school garden and are activated by work such as digging, lifting and watering their own plot. Some school garden interventions also invovle and activate the pupils families, which increases the sustainability of the interventions effects. Previous research has stated that schools are considered a key setting for promoting children and adolescents' food literacy and physical activity and to improve their mental and social health. Relocating teaching to an outdoor nature setting, which is a central ingredients of school garden interventions, has shown to be positively related to increased physical activity in both boys and girls during the school day. Furthermore, contextual and experience related characteristics such as tasks, motions, associations and interactions realted to the school garden has not been captured. Therefore, the aim of FoodACT is to investigate how a school gardening intervention impact pupils food literacy, climate literacy, school motivation and physical activity with a special focus on children with low socio-economics in a controlled design. In 2023 a pilot-study will be performed to test and adjust the outcome measures. ;


Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


NCT number NCT05839080
Study type Interventional
Source Center for Clinical Research and Prevention
Contact Peter Elsborg, PhD
Phone +4551921249
Email peter.elsborg@regionh.dk
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date January 1, 2023
Completion date December 31, 2025

See also
  Status Clinical Trial Phase
Active, not recruiting NCT05659862 - Digitally Assisted Behavioral Physical Activity Intervention in Fibromyalgia N/A
Recruiting NCT05294692 - Using Behavioural Economics for More Sustainable Physical Activity mHealth Incentives: the Caterpillar App N/A
Recruiting NCT05619250 - Supervised Center-based vs. Unsupervised Home-based Exercise Programs (PRO-Training) N/A
Recruiting NCT06088485 - The Effect of Bone Mineral Density in Patients With Adult Cystic Fibrosis
Not yet recruiting NCT05963893 - Promoting a Healthy Life Through Gender Equity
Enrolling by invitation NCT05461989 - Physical Activity Barriers in Adolescent Hypertension Patients
Completed NCT06063187 - Technology-based Fall Risk Assessments for Older Adults in Low-income Settings
Active, not recruiting NCT06089876 - The Use of Mobile Applications in Obese and Overweight Adolescents for Health Improvement N/A
Recruiting NCT05608707 - APPETITE: Plant Protein and Exercise Solutions for the Prevention of Undernutrition in Older Adults. N/A
Enrolling by invitation NCT06033417 - Walking and Blood Pressure in Older Adults With Respiratory Impairment. N/A
Not yet recruiting NCT05887583 - Supporting Physical Literacy at School and Home N/A
Completed NCT05535400 - Effects of Physical-Psychological Integrative Intervention on SCI Patient: a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial N/A
Recruiting NCT06095999 - Perfect Fit: Evaluation of a Virtual Coach for Smoking Cessation and Physical Activity N/A
Completed NCT06246812 - Text Message and Competition-Based Interventions Among University Students N/A
Recruiting NCT05935982 - Virtual Reality Exercise in a Community Highschool for Children With Disabilities Phase 1
Not yet recruiting NCT06027502 - Cardioprotective Benefit of Passive Heat Therapy in Higher-Level Spinal Cord Injury: Safety and Proof of Concept N/A
Recruiting NCT05147909 - Impact of Dietary Phosphate Excess on Exercise Capacity and Visceral Adiposity N/A
Recruiting NCT06185413 - Children's Cooperation Denmark: a 3-year System Dynamics Trial N/A
Completed NCT06018974 - Digital Gaming Intervention for Older People in Long-term Care N/A
Recruiting NCT05412862 - Positive Emotions Following Acute Cardiac Events N/A