School Based Physical Activity Interventions and Its Impact on Wellbeing and Educational Outcomes

Queen's University Belfast

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 1

Conditions: Physical Activity; Health Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: HealthyKidz physical activity programme

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03548350

HealthyKidz

Details and patient eligibility

About

A school based Physical Activity intervention for pupils (8-9 years old) to promote fitness and wellbeing

Full description

The experimental group will participate in a 24 week multi-component programme that includes four strands:

• A physical literacy programme focusing on core elements of strength, agility, speed, balance and flexibility. Delivered by external facilitators for one hour per week over 16 weeks of the programme (2 x8week blocks).
• 'Golden Mile' - pupils and teachers participate 15min walk/run a min of 2 times per week
• After schools club (not compulsory) featuring mind-set component delivered by external facilitators
• Healthy kidz app with reward system

The control group will continue doing physical activity including physical education as is normal for their school

All groups will participate in fitness assessments at week 1 and week 24 of the programme and pupils will also complete questionnaires based on measures described above at week 1 and week 24.

Enrollment: 1,200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 9 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• aged 8-9 years
• enrolled in participating school

Exclusion criteria

• Unable to give informed consent
• Presence of an underlying medical conditions
• Already enrolled in a physical activity intervention

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,200 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The experimental group will participate in a 24 week multi-component programme that includes four strands: * A physical literacy programme focusing on core elements of strength, agility, speed, balance and flexibility. Delivered by external facilitators for one hour per week over 16 weeks of the programme (2 x8week blocks). * 'Golden Mile' - pupils and teachers participate 15min walk/run a min of 2 times per week * After schools club (not compulsory) featuring mind-set component delivered by external facilitators * Healthy kidz app with reward system

Treatment:

Behavioral: HealthyKidz physical activity programme

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will continue doing physical activity including physical education as is normal for their school