Active School. A School-based Intervention to Increase Childrens Daily Physical Activity Level.

University of Stavanger

Status: Completed

Conditions: Aerobic Fitness; Physical Activity; Executive Function

Treatments: Behavioral: Physical activity

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03436355

Prosjektnr NSD: 38509

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study seeks to explore whether increased physical activity in school affects children's executive function, aerobic Fitness and childrens self-regulation. The "Active school" study was a 10-month randomized controlled trial. The sample included 449 children (10-11 years old) in five intervention and four control schools. The weekly interventions were 2×45 minutes physically active academic lessons, 5×10 minutes physically active breaks, and 5×10 minutes physically active homework. Aerobic fitness was measured using a 10-minute interval running test. Executive function was tested using four cognitive tests (Stroop, verbal fluency, digit span, and Trail Making). A composite score for executive function was computed and used in analyses.

Self-regulation was measured by the Child Behavior Rating Scale.

Enrollment: 449 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 11 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all children attending 5th grade at the included schools in Stavanger, Norway during the school-year 2014/2015.

Exclusion criteria

• not able to participate in daily physical activity and physical education and complete the cognitive tests.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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449 participants in 1 patient group

Physical activity

Experimental group

Description:

60 minutes of daily physical activity (see intervention)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Physical activity