Nudging Students Towards Healthy Diet and Physical Activity to Prevent Obesity (PAAPASNudge)

Rio de Janeiro State University

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Primary prevention; Behavioral: Primary prevention + nudge; Behavioral: Nudge

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03128775

Nudgepaappas

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of the present study is to estimate the effect of nudging proposals on the students' Body Mass Index, based on changes made in the school environment. This is a factorial randomized community trial, which will be conducted in 18 public schools in the city of Duque de Caxias, RJ.

Sex: All

Ages: 9 to 15 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

5th and 6th grades students consent form signed by parents/tutors

Exclusion criteria

pregnant girls

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 4 patient groups

Nudge

Experimental group

Description:

This group will receive changes in the school environment (nudge strategies). Interventions regarding food consumption were based on nudge strategies to led students to eat more fruits and vegetables. To stimulate physical activity, several sports equipment (basketball hoops, volleyball nets, balls, ropes, shuttlecock and a lot of toys) are available for use in the school sports court.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Nudge

Primary prevention

Experimental group

Description:

This group will receive educational activities in the classroom. Classroom-based educational activities will be based on an earlier study, called PAPPAS, which was developed in the same city and constituted a school-based intervention with the objective of reducing the consumption of sweetened beverages and biscuits and increase the consumption of fruits, vegetables and beans.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Primary prevention

Primary prevention + nudge

Experimental group

Description:

This group will receive educational activities and in the classroomchanges in the school environment (nudge).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Primary prevention + nudge

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

without any activity