Effects of a Postural Education Multicomponent Intervention in Primary School Children. (PEPE)

University of the Balearic Islands

Status

Completed

Conditions

Back Pain Lower Back

Physical Activity

Treatments

Behavioral: Back care intervention program

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06668129

RTI2018-101023-A-I00 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

130CER19

Details and patient eligibility

About

The present study, named PEPE project, aims to study the effects of a 9-month postural educational multicomponent intervention on back health in schoolchildren. As well as, this project aims to examine the effectiveness of the intervention on teachers. Total of 2000 children aged 10 to 12 and 20 schools will be randomized into an intervention group (N=1000 children, N=10 schools) and a control group (N=1000 children, N=10 schools). A 9-months intervention program will be implemented. Participants will be evaluated three times: before the intervention (baseline, Month 0), after the intervention (post-test, Month 9) and 6 months after the intervention finished (follow-up, Month 15). The intervention will consist on: (1) nine oral presentations delivered at school, (2) multisubject teaching unit, (3) information campaign widespread by the school (i.e. posters, triptychs, school website, social networks, etc.), and (4) The Back-Care Day at school. The effectiveness of the intervention will be evaluated by means of primary outcomes which include the back-care knowledge of schoolchildren. As well as, a set of secondary outcomes such as daily postural habits, use of a backpack, and LBP prevalence in schoolchildren and among teachers involved will be studied. This intervention will provide new insights into the prevention of childhood LBP which may lead to a better management of this health problem throughout an individuals lifetime.

Enrollment

849 patients

Sex

All

Ages

10 to 12 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Children aged between 10 and 12 years, who belonged to the fifth and sixth grades of primary school.

Exclusion criteria

Children with some type of medical condition that may affect the results of the measurements or that present some limitation of their abilities that prevents the intervention program from developing normally.