Combining Primary and Secondary Prevention for Reduction of Excessive Weight Gain in School

Rio de Janeiro State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Eating behavior and physical activity change

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02034994

IMS-PAPPAS2-project

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main objective is to evaluate the effects of a multicomponent, school-based intervention combining change in nutritional behaviors with after school physical activity activities in reducing the excessive weight gain in schoolchildren.

Full description

Specific objectives are:

• evaluate the effect of the program on: change in nutritional behaviors, such as reducing sugar sweetened beverages and cookies intake reduction of time spent in sedentary activities gains in school performance and cognition outcomes the amount of daily physical activity on the percentage of body fat, changes in biochemical markers and blood pressure.

Enrollment: 1,200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 9 to 15 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Both prevention programs:

• 6th and 7th grades students
• consent form signed by parents / tutors

Secondary prevention program:

• overweight and obese children

Exclusion criteria

• pregnant girls

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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1,200 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Reduction of sugar sweetened beverages. cookies, sedentary activities and increasing physical activity

Treatment:

Behavioral: Eating behavior and physical activity change

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention