Physical Activiy Intervention Programm

Physical Activity Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effectiveness of a Physical Activity Intervention on the Overweight and Obesity of Chilean Schoolchildren

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04194580
• Other study ID #: UAChile
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 3, 2019
• Est. completion date: December 20, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: December 2019
• Source: Universidad Autónoma de Chile
• Contact: Andrés Godoy, Prof.
• Phone: +56932259064
• Email: andres.godoy[@]uautonoma.cl
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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

Description:

A greater intensity of the intervention, and a longer weekly duration that extends until the weekend, could improve the efficiency in obesity.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 800
• Est. completion date: December 20, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: July 20, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 4 Years to 18 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• The parents of the children will be informed about the objectives and methods of the study, and will give their written consent to the participation of the children. Similarly, the study will introduce children from classroom to class and their oral consent will be obtained

Exclusion Criteria:

• Participating children will be free from serious learning difficulties, or physical or mental disorders, that could prevent participation in scheduled physical activities.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Fitness
• Obesity
• Overweight
• Overweight and Obesity
• Physical Activity

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Phisical activity intervention
The prevalence of overweight in chilean children in the among the highest in the world and increasing quickly. The investigators recently evaluated an after-school program of recreational physical activity to control overweight, obesity and other cardiovascular risk factors in primary school children Temuco. This program reduced adiposity and increased the fitness.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Chile	Laboratorio Fisiología del Ejercicio	Temuco	La Araucanía

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Universidad Autónoma de Chile

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Chile, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Aerobic Capacity	By using 20-m shuttle run test, which is validated to measure maximal aerobic capacity in children from 4 years.	1 year
Primary	Muscle Strength	By using standing long jump test	1 year
Primary	Flexibility	By using the sit and reach test	1 year
Primary	Speed-agility	By using 4x10 meters shuttle run test	1 year
Secondary	Health-related quality of life	By using the instrument for assessing Health-Related Quality of Life for children and adolescents aged 4-17 years (KINDL), in its version validated in Spanish. The KINDLR questionnaire consists of 24 Likert-scaled items associated with six dimensions: physical well-being, emotional well-being, self-esteem, family, friends and everyday functioning (school or nursery school/kindergarten). The sub-scales of these six dimensions can be combined to produce a total score. the score ranges from 0 to 100. Higher scores indicate better health-related quality of life.	1 year