Interventions to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity in Lebanese School Children Targeting Overweight and Obesity- Pilot Study

American University of Beirut Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Childhood Obesity

Treatments: Other: Health-E-PALS-Pilot

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03040258

NUT.NH.12

Details and patient eligibility

About

Evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of a multi-component school-based intervention to promote healthy eating and physical activity with school children ages 9 to 11 years in Lebanon.

Enrollment: 374 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 9 to 11 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Schoolchildren
• Aged 9 to 11 years

Exclusion criteria

• no exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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374 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group- Health-E-PALS-Pilot

Experimental group

Description:

Group of students receiving the school-based intervention: Health-E-PALS (pilot), it consists of in class activities and lessons.

Treatment:

Other: Health-E-PALS-Pilot

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Group of students not receiving any intervention