Frequent Ballgames Training for 9-11 Year Old Schoolchildren

University of Copenhagen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Echocardiography; Body Composition

Treatments: Behavioral: Running; Behavioral: Football; Behavioral: Circuit training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02000492

18172 (Other Identifier)

H-3-2013-038

Details and patient eligibility

About

Inactivity among schoolchildren is a challenge to public health and for the municipality in particular. This study´s aim is to evaluate the cognitive and physical as well as social and fitness adaptations, and learning outcomes of short- and long term ball training for 9-11 years old girls and boys, and to determine to what extend the organisation (5x12 minutes og 3x40 minute a week) and type of training (ball games, circuit training or running) influence the magnitude of response.

Enrollment: 423 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 9 to 11 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 9-11 years old girls and boys in 3rd grade in schools in Frederikssund and Copenhagen

Exclusion criteria

• Children with severe mental or physical disabilities

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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423 participants in 2 patient groups

Training

Experimental group

Description:

Football, circuit training or running 5x12 minutes or 3x 40 minutes

Treatment:

Behavioral: Football

Behavioral: Running

Behavioral: Circuit training

Control

No Intervention group