Active and Healthy Kids in Telemark - a School Based Health Promoting Intervention

University of South-Eastern Norway

Status: Completed

Conditions: Physical Fitness; Physical Activity; Nutrition; Academic Performance

Treatments: Behavioral: Activity and diet

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03906851

ACTIKIDS

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study examine possible changes in physical activity, nutrition, and psychosocial health following the intervention "Active and Healthy Kids in Telemark". The intervention schools will received the intervention, whereas the control schools will continue as usual.

Full description

School based, health promoting interventions with focus on increase physical activity and improved nutrition seems to be a good solution to the challenges with low physical activity level, poor physical fitness, poor nutrition and psychosocial health challenges among children and adolescents. Low physical activity levels and physical fitness is recognized as one of the major public health challenges in the 21st century, and it negatively affects cognitive skills and academic performances. Providing school based health promoting interventions makes it easier to reach all children and adolescents regardless of social and cultural background, and hence reduce social inequalities in health.

Enrollment: 840 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 11 to 14 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Pupil 8th grade

Exclusion criteria

• Inadequate language skills to complete questionnaire

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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840 participants in 2 patient groups

Activity and diet

Experimental group

Description:

Multi-component, holistic model with a) physical activity, b) nutrition, and c) psychosocial work. A: physical activity will be provided as a pedagogical tool in subjects Mathematics, Norwegian and English B: Focus on school meals and menus in school cafeteria C: Psychosocial work with focus on the associations between physical activity, nutrition and psychosocial health. Collaboration between schools and school health services

Treatment:

Behavioral: Activity and diet

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Schools are required to perform teaching activities, school meals and school cafeteria menus as usual