Effects of the Face Mask on Physical Fitness in Children (MaskFIT)

University of Oviedo

Status: Completed

Conditions: Physical Fitness; Emotional Stress; Health; Cardiorespiratory Fitness; Childhood ALL; Sedentary Behavior

Treatments: Device: Mask

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04800848

UO2021-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this multicenter randomized crossover design study is to evaluate a sample of 500 boys and girls from public and private schools in the Principality of Asturias, aged between 6 and 12 years, with the objective of determining the level of physical condition, as well as to evaluate the effect of the use of FFP2/N95 face masks during the execution of the ALPHA Fitness battery, and the emotional effects caused by the use of these masks. This is a sample obtained by accessibility, in which the sampling will be stratified by age and academic year.

Enrollment: 165 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 12 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Age between 6 and 12 years old.
2. Be able to perform all the tests and procedures that comprise the study.
3. Have signed informed parental consent.

Exclusion criteria

1. To take drugs that can affect the measurements
2. Contraindications or pathologies associated with exercise

Trial design

165 participants in 1 patient group

Mask/No Mask

Description:

The group will perform both situations in a randomized cross-over design: * 1. Scholars will perform the fitness test with the use of a N95/FFP2 face mask * 2. Scholars will perform the fitness test without the use of a N95/FFP2 face mask

Treatment:

Device: Mask