Efficacy of an Educational School-based Intervention to Reduce Prevalence of Obesity in Childhood-EdAl-2 (EDAL2)

University Rovira i Virgili

Status: Completed

Conditions: Childhood Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: lifestyle counseling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01362023

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Details and patient eligibility

About

Our hypothesis is that a regular systematic educational intervention in primary school improves lifestyle choices and reduces obesity. As such, the aim of the study is to evaluate the effects of a 3-year school-based program of lifestyle improvement, including diet and physical activity, implemented by university students acting as "health promoting agents" (HPA) on the prevalence of obesity.

Full description

Initial pupil enrollment and continued for 3 years.

Enrollment: 800 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 8 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• In the intervention group, all children of the selected classroom are exposed to the intervention.
• The data a will collected on all the children, but only the data from individuals (and their parents) who provided informed consent are included in the final analyses.
• Name, gender, date and place of birth are recorded at the start of the program, while weight, height, body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference variables (identified set of anthropometric measures) are recorded in each of the 3 academic years of the study.

Exclusion criteria

• No adequate age
• Lack of inclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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800 participants in 2 patient groups

control

No Intervention group

Description:

Control pupils follow their usual activities

lifestyle counseling

Experimental group

Description:

In 3 academic years, the intervention program consisted of three components: 1. Classroom practice by HPA to highlight healthy lifestyle habits 2. Teaching practice by HPA using books designed to include the nutritional objectives 3. Parental activities included with their children In each of 12 activities (1 h/activity), the classroom practice consisted of three components: 1. Experimental development of activities regarding each healthy lifestyle habit 2. Assessment of activity performed in classroom 3. An activity developed for use at home

Treatment:

Behavioral: lifestyle counseling