Physical Activiy Intervention Programm

Universidad Autónoma de Chile

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Fitness; Physical Activity; Overweight and Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Phisical activity intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04194580

UAChile

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a recreational physical activity intervention for reducing the prevalence of overweight/obesity and other cardiovascular risk factors

Full description

A greater intensity of the intervention, and a longer weekly duration that extends until the weekend, could improve the efficiency in obesity.

Enrollment: 800 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 4 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The parents of the children will be informed about the objectives and methods of the study, and will give their written consent to the participation of the children. Similarly, the study will introduce children from classroom to class and their oral consent will be obtained

Exclusion criteria

• Participating children will be free from serious learning difficulties, or physical or mental disorders, that could prevent participation in scheduled physical activities.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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800 participants in 2 patient groups

Physical activity

Experimental group

Description:

In the program we will perform a recreational physical activity intervention during one year that include standardized recreative and non competitive activities conducted by sports instructors

Treatment:

Behavioral: Phisical activity intervention

Physical activity control

No Intervention group

Description:

This group will not participate in the intervention