Building Long-term Academic Success Through Ongoing Fun Fitness Program (BLASTOFF)

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status

Withdrawn

Conditions

Reading Disorder

Treatments

Behavioral: Motor lab activity

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04113707

19-0180

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the research study is to investigate if daily motor activities, including fitness activities, gross motor skills, fine motor skills, and motor coordination activities result in physiological, cognitive, and behavioral benefits to children at Odyssey Academy. The study will compare students' performance after intervention by comparing an intervention period to a standard care period, and comparing intervention students to students engaged in standard school activities in the area of academic performance.

Full description

The objective of this study is to track if daily participation in motor lab activities for school age children improves their academic performance. Academic performance is associated with motor skills, coordination, and executive function. Our objectives are to determine if daily participation in motor lab activities changes these skills, to better understand these relationships, track outcomes of children participating in motor lab intervention compared to non-intervention and children receiving standard level of care in the school, and to be able to follow the intervention students over time.

The specific aims of the study are:

To investigate whether gross motor skills, fine motor skills, and physical fitness, predict executive function skills.
To determine the relationship between these variables and academic performance.
To examine the relationship between participation in motor lab activities and measures of change in fitness, gross motor skills, fine motor skills, executive function, and academic performance.
To evaluate if participation in daily motor lab activities predicts fitness level, gross motor skills, fine motor skills, executive function, and academic success at the end of the school year and in the next school year.

Sex

All

Ages

5 to 13 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

students in grades kindergarten through fourth grade,
students below grade level in reading
in Odyssey Academy's reading program

Exclusion criteria

students that are not part of the specialized reading program at Odyssey Academy
are unwilling to participate in the motor lab intervention
lack conversational ability in the use of the English language.