Effects of Brain Breaks on Educational Achievement in School Settings: The Break4Brain Project

University of the Balearic Islands

Status

Active, not recruiting

Conditions

Physical Activity

Treatments

Behavioral: Physical activity interacting with a video

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06319833

348CER23

Details and patient eligibility

About

A total of 600 children between 10 and 12 years of age will be randomized among two experimental conditions: physical activity interacting with a video (n = 300), and sedentary activity (n = 300). The experimental condition will take place in the school settings during the school day through a between-subject design with a total of two measurements, pre, and post-test. Using the latest advances, the transient effects of the experimental conditions on cognitive and academic performance will be measured. The experimental condition was crafted through a qualitative design involving semi-structured interviews with teachers (n = 41) and members of the management team (n = 16), along with questionnaires administered to students (n = 600). To enhance and ensure its sustainability, the same process will be replicated after the intervention. Interviews and questionnaires were meticulously crafted by the RE-AIM framework, and subsequently validated through a rigorous process involving an expert panel (n = 30) utilizing the Delphi methodology. This project has the potential to substantially contribute to the field of acute physical activity and could have a meaningful transference on the educational system. This method might be prescribed as an effective teaching strategy.

Enrollment

600 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

10 to 12 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Children aged 10-12 years.

Exclusion criteria

Children who have serious physical or mental disorders (autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, and cerebral palsy) that would impede participation in the experimental conditions.