Brief Physical Activity Program to Increase Physical Fitness in Elementary School Children

Marshall University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Childhood Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: 6 minutes activity

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02087774

498505-2

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators hypothesized that the addition of 6 minutes of exercise during the school day would increase physical fitness in elementary school students as demonstrated by longer distances run in 2 minutes and a decrease in heart rate at the end of the exercise.

Full description

Intervention group played music for 6 minutes each morning in addition to recess and physical activity classes. Baseline fitness data and after-intervention data were compared.

Enrollment: 300 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All students were invited to participate.

Exclusion criteria

• Lack of parental consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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300 participants in 2 patient groups

Control School

No Intervention group

Description:

Control School received no intervention.

6 minutes activity

Experimental group

Description:

Implementation of 6 minutes of physical activity daily into the school day routine. Children can jog in place, do jumping jacks or dance.

Treatment:

Behavioral: 6 minutes activity