Attention Capacity and Before-school Physical Activity Intervention Program (Active-Star)

Universidad Santo Tomas

Status

Completed

Conditions

Behavior

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Physical Activity

Child Behavior

Treatments

Behavioral: Active-Start intervention

Behavioral: No Intervention

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03893149

N°: 938 USACH

Details and patient eligibility

About

Despite the evidence and the potential of physical activity related to cognition and academic performance in children, the effects of a before-school physical activity program on these parameters remains unknown.

Full description

Despite public health concerns and the extensively documented health benefits of physical activity, a large proportion of Chilean children do not meet the physical activity recommendations (Aguilar-Farias et al., 2018). Since most children spend a majority of their waking hours at school, this environment is appropriate for the implementation of preventive interventions, particularly those that include activities promoting physical activity (Naylor & McKay, 2009). With the absence of opportunities for physical activity during the school day, before-school programs have become a popular option to help children increasing their physical activity levels (Stylianou, van der Mars, et al., 2016). Although several recent studies support a positive effect of before school-based physical activity on health (Westcott, Puhala, Colligan, Loud, & Cobbett, 2015), less literature has evaluate the cognitive outcomes (Stylianou, Kulinna, et al., 2016) such as attention capacity.

Enrollment

150 patients

Sex

All

Ages

8 to 10 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

All students in fourth grade (aged 8-10 years)
Children's parents/caregivers will give their written consent to the children's participation.
Collaboration in the family to respond to questionnaires

Exclusion criteria

Children with some physical pathology or medical contraindication to perform physical exercise
Diagnosed with learning disabilities or mental disorders