Impact an Educational Multimodal Intervention to Improve Healthy Habits in Adolescents.

University of Extremadura

Status: Completed

Conditions: Adolescent Overweight; Self Concept; Child Nutrition Sciences; Diet, Healthy; Exercise; Body Dissatisfaction

Treatments: Other: A multimodal intervention in which they worked on self-esteem, self-concept and body image and nutrition.

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07065097

UExtremadura2020

Details and patient eligibility

About

Background:

Adolescence is a critical period to promote healthy habits.

Objective: To know the impact that a multimodal educational intervention has on the knowledge and modification of healthy habits (HS) (Mediterranean diet (DM) and physical activity) in adolescents.

Methodology: randomized controlled clinical trial, with multimodal educational intervention, in the Diocesan College of Cáceres.

The participants will be assign to the control (GC) or experimental (GE) group by randomization, the latter received a multimodal educational intervention (theoretical and practical workshops on HS).

Data will be collect: sociodemographic, academic notes, anthropometric data, KIDMED questionnaire and physical activity questionnaire (PAQ-A); Pre and post intervention. And knowledge about HS will be evaluate.

The parents of the intervention group will receive workshops on healthy habits, benefits of diet and physical exercise, as well as the adolescents of the intervention group.

All parents will grant consent to participate.

Enrollment: 385 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 11 to 16 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

. Inclusion Criteria:

• aged between 11 and 16 years who were in their 1st and 2nd years of compulsory secondary education (ESO).

Exclusion Criteria:

• adolescents with serious illnesses such as cancer or with serious mental health problems (depression requiring treatment) and
• Adolescents who, despite having parental consent, did not wish to participate.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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385 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

This group underwent a multimodal intervention in which they worked on self-esteem, self-concept and body image.

Treatment:

Other: A multimodal intervention in which they worked on self-esteem, self-concept and body image and nutrition.