My Body is Fit and Fabulous at School Phase II

University of Malaya

Status: Completed

Conditions: Overweight, Childhood

Treatments: Other: MyBFF@school

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04155255

NMRR1343916563

Details and patient eligibility

About

"My Body is Fit and Fabulous" (MyBFF@school) program was designed specifically for overweight and obese school children in order to help them control their BMI and body fat. MyBFF@school is a multi-faceted obesity intervention program that incorporated physical activity, nutrition and psychology modules.

Full description

"My Body is Fit and Fabulous" (MyBFF@school) is a school-based, cluster randomised controlled trial (C-RCT) study that primarily aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of MyBFF@school program on overweight and obese school childrens' BMI for age (BMI z-score) and body fat percentage at 3 and 6 months post intervention. Primary and secondary schools in the central region of Peninsular Malaysia were randomised to either intervention or control school via systematic random sampling method. The selected intervention schools underwent MyBFF@school programme that consisted of physical activity, nutrition and psychology modules, whereas the control schools followed the standard national school curriculum.

Enrollment: 2,438 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 9 to 16 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Give consent
• Overweight and obese students with BMI for age (BMI z-score) more than +1SD based on WHO 2007 Growth Reference
• Age between 9-16 years old

Exclusion criteria

• BMI for age below and equal +1SD

• Physical or mental disability

• Medical conditions that prevent him/her to participate in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity

• Co-morbidities that may interfere with the study such as:

  1. diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus
  2. hypertension
  3. nephritic syndrome
  4. epilepsy
  5. congenital heart disease
  6. skeletal anomalies

• On steroids

• On anti-epileptic

• On methylphenidate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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2,438 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Age-matched overweight and obese students were selected from control schools. The students participated in their usual health and physical education classes plus any other curriculum activities provided by the school.

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Overweight and obese students were recruited from intervention schools. Students underwent MyBFF@school intervention programme that consisted of physical activity, nutrition and psychological modules for the duration of 6 months. MyBFF@school intervention programme were conducted by trained personnel that were stationed full-time at each intervention school.

Treatment:

Other: MyBFF@school