Education and Fitness: EDUFIT Study

University of Granada (UGR)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Lipid Metabolism; Physical Fitness; Body Composition

Treatments: Behavioral: Physical activity program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01098968

EDUFIT

Details and patient eligibility

About

EDUFIT is a group-Randomized Controlled Trial specifically designed to enhance physical fitness and other health-related factors in a school setting in adolescents.

Full description

Physical fitness is a powerful marker of cardiovascular health already at early stages in life. To promote physical fitness enhancement from the school is therefore needed and this is the main aim of the EDUFIT study (EDUcation for FITness).

The participants were randomly allocated to control group (CG), experimental group 1 (EG1) and experimental group 2 (EG2). The CG received 2 physical education sessions/week, the EG1 received 4 physical education sessions/week (volume increased) and the EG2 received 4 physical education sessions/week of high intensity (volume+intensity increased). Several health-related parameters were assessed before and after a 16-weeks intervention: physical fitness (primary outcome), body composition (secondary), and lipid-metabolic profile, ventilatory parameters, blood pressure, and cognitive and academic performance (tertiary outcomes).

The hypothesis of the EDUFIT project was that to double the number of physical education classes will improve physical fitness in adolescents. The confirmation of the hypothesis could have important public health implications.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 14 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adolescents enrolled in the Spanish Educational System, free of any muscle-skeletal problem not allowing take part in Physical Education lessons or fitness testing.

Exclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of diabetes
• Pregnancy
• Drugs/alcohol abuse
• In general, any chronic disease that does not permit the person to perform exercise and physical education lessons.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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70 participants in 3 patient groups

Normal PE

No Intervention group

Description:

2 Physical Education sessions / week

PE Volume

Experimental group

Description:

4 Physical Education sessions/week (increased volume)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Physical activity program

PE Volume + Intensity

Experimental group

Description:

4 Physical Education sessions/week of high intensity (increased volume and intensity)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Physical activity program