Fighting Climate Change: Urban Greennes, Active Mobility and Health Co-benefits. (CLIMACTIONS)

Istituto per la Ricerca e l'Innovazione Biomedica

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Respiratory and Allergic Symptoms

Treatments: Other: Manteinance and care intervention on the green areas.

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04742179

11/2020

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a prospective, non-randomized, controlled, interventional study aiming to assess, in a primary school in the city of Palermo, the health effects of a maintenance and care intervention of the school's green areas.

All children of the third, fourth and fifth classes of two school complexes of the same primary school will be selected. One complex will undergo maintenance and care of the green areas and gardens inside the school. The other complex will serve as a control group and will not undergo any intervention.

The study will involve three phases.

1. During the first phase (prior to the intervention) respiratory and allergic symptoms will be assessed through a standardized questionnaire to be administered to students, parents and teachers in both the school complexes.
2. During the second phase, the maintenance and care intervention plan will be implemented in the experimental complex.
3. During the third phase, 1 week after the maintenance intervention, respiratory and allergic symptoms will be re-assessed through a standardized questionnaire to be administered to the same students, parents and teachers in both the school complexes.

Enrollment: 175 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 11 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• male or female gender
• age between 7 and 11 years

Exclusion criteria

• no exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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175 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

The children belonging to the classes of the school complex undergoing the maintenance intervention.

Treatment:

Other: Manteinance and care intervention on the green areas.

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The children belonging to the classes of the school complex that will not undergo the maintenance intervention.