REGULarity of Physical ActivitieS (REGUL'APS)

University of Nancy

Status

Completed

Conditions

Overweight

Obesity

Treatments

Other: Physical education sessions

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01161212

CNIL n°05-1340 (Other Identifier)

Regulaps2006

CCTIRS-05.65 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

In French primary schools, children participate in 3 compulsory hours of physical education (PE) each week unless they have a medical contra-indication. But, there is no scientific evidence (randomized trial) that a weekly physical activity splitting up of these 3 hours of PE brings or not the same effects, particularly to prevent overweight or obesity.

Regul'aps is a cluster randomized controlled trial which wants to evaluate whether splitting up the 3 hours into 3 or 4 sessions (vs. 1-2 sessions) of PE per week has an effect on speed of a BMI increase and on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) over the school year.

Study hypothesis: reduction of speed of increase of BMI and an increase of HRQoL

Enrollment

1,600 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

All teachers under the cover of the headmasters in charge of classes from grades 2 to 5 in 2 counties in the Lorraine region of France (Meurthe-et-Moselle and Vosges [District of Golbey])
headmasters or teachers had to agree to modify the organisation of PE sessions

Exclusion criteria