Effectiveness of a Multicomponent Intervention to Promote Physical Activity Levels During the School Day (MOVESCHOOL) — MOVESCHOOL  

Physical Activity Clinical Trial

Official title: Effectiveness of a Multicomponent Intervention to Promote Physical Activity Levels During the School Day (MOVESCHOOL)

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

Study based a multicomponent school-based intervention during the school-day (i.e., Physically active learning, active breaks, and active recess) on Physical Activity, health, educational, and cognition outcomes in adolescents.

Clinical Trial Description

MOVESCHOOLS is a randomized controlled study coordinated by fully qualified researchers in physical activity and sport sciences from two universities [University of Cadiz (UCA) and University of Extremadura (UEX), Spain]. This study is aimed at year 1 to year 3 from Secondary Education students (11-16 years old), belonging to 10 schools in Spain (5 schools in Cadiz and 5 schools in Caceres). The schools will be randomly assigned to a control group (n = 5 schools and 420 students) and an intervention group (n = 5 schools and 420 students). The intervention will last 6 months, and will consist of three components:

1. Inclusion of two physically active classes per week.

2. Development of two daily active breaks of 4 minutes duration.

3. Implementation of daily active recesses.

Before and after the intervention, Physical Activity and sedentary time will be assessed by accelerometry, health-related fitness levels by field tests, body composition parameters by anthropometry, academic performance by school grades, positive health (quality of life and self-perception of health) by questionnaire, and cognitive parameters (executive functions and mathematical fluency) by specific cognition tests. In weeks 8 and 16, Physical Activity and sedentary time will also be evaluated as intermediate measures.

At the end of the intervention the researchers will determine the changes of the main outcome variables. Likewise, the main hypotheses raised will be:

1. Students belonging to the experimental group will improve physical activity and will decrease sedentary time during the school-day when comparing to the students belonging to the control group.

2. Students belonging to the experimental group will result in improved in physical and psychological health markers when comparing to the students belonging to the control group.

3. Students belonging to the experimental group will result in improved academic indicators and cognitive markers when comparing to the students belonging to the control group.

4. Students belonging to the experimental group will improve school climate and motivational variables in academic classes compared to students belonging to the control group. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Adolescents
• Cognition
• Physical Activity
• Physical Fitness

• NCT number: NCT06254638
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of Extremadura
• Contact: David Sánchez Oliva, PhD
• Phone: 660574338
• Email: davidsanchez@unex.es
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 1, 2023
• Completion date: August 31, 2026