A National School-based Health Lifestyles Interventions Among Chinese Children and Adolescents Against Obesity

Sun Yat-sen University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pediatric Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: The Health Lifestyles Interventions

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02343588

201202010

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study was designed as a national multi-centered cluster randomized controlled trial involving more than 70,000 children and adolescents aged 7-18 years from 7 provinces in China. In each center, about 12-16 primary and secondary schools, with totally at least 10000 participants were randomly selected (Primary: Secondary=1:1). All of the selected schools were randomly allocated to either intervention or control group (Intervention: Control=1:1).The multi-components school-based and family-involved scheme was conducted within the intervention group for 9 month, while students in the control group followed their usual health practice. The intervention consisted of four components: a) Create supportive school and family environment, b) Health lifestyles education and related compulsory physical activities, c) Instruct and promote school physical education, d) Self-monitor obesity related behaviors. Four types of outcomes including anthropometric, behavioral, blood chemical and physical fitness were measured to assess the effectiveness of the intervention program.

Enrollment: 70,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

grade of 1 to 5 in primary schools and grade of 6 to 8 and 10 to 11 in secondary schools.

Exclusion criteria

Suffering or any history of disabilities, cardiovascular diseases, asthma, metabolic diseases, etc.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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70,000 participants in 2 patient groups

The Health Lifestyles Interventions

Experimental group

Description:

1. Creating a supportive school, family and community environment; 2. Health lifestyles educational strategies; 3. Instruct and promote school physical education; 4. The monitoring and instruction of obesity related behaviors (focus group)

Treatment:

Behavioral: The Health Lifestyles Interventions

Receive no intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual practice