Influencing Factors and Interventions of Physical Exercise Behaviour of 6-Year-Old Children in Guangdong, China

Universiti Sains Malaysia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Physical Exercise Behaviour; Fundamental Motor Skills; 6-Year-Old Children

Treatments: Behavioral: A relevant physical fitness training program intervention; Behavioral: control group,Physical exercise using kindergarten standards

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06667219

USM/JEPeM/KK/23030260

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to examine the relationship between children's physical exercise behavior and children's Fundamental Motor Skills (FMS) before and after changing the influencing factors of 6-year-old children's physical exercise behavior in Guangdong Province, China. The main question it aims to answer is:

Is there any change of the relationship (time, group, and interaction) between 6-year-old children's physical exercise behaviour and children's Fundamental Motor Skills (FMS) before and after the physical activity intervention of the influencing factors in Guangdong Province, China?

Participants will:

Intervention group, Length: 12 weeks, 40 minutes, twice a week. The intervention will be conducted using a relevant physical fitness training program.

Control group, Length: 12 weeks. Content: Physical exercise using kindergarten standards.

Researchers will compare the data before and after the intervention to know whether the Fundamental Motor Skills (FMS) of 6-year-old children have changed.

Enrollment: 108 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 7 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Preschool children aged 6 years old in Guangdong, China;
• Children who are of Chinese nationality;
• Male and female;
• Parents/guardians signed an informed consent form;

Exclusion criteria

• Have a mental illness with cognitive impairment problems;
• Children with speech or ear function impairment;
• Recent or imminent surgery (within 3 months), or medical co-morbidities;
• Parents/guardians did not sign the informed consent.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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108 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group, a children's physical fitness training program

Experimental group

Description:

Length:12 weeks, 40 minutes one time, twice a week. Intervention content: The intervention will be conducted using a relevant physical fitness training program.

Treatment:

Behavioral: A relevant physical fitness training program intervention

control group, Physical exercise using kindergarten standards

Experimental group

Description:

Duration: 12 weeks. Content: Physical exercise using kindergarten standards.

Treatment:

Behavioral: control group,Physical exercise using kindergarten standards