Sustaining Quality Physical Education for Healthy Kids

University of Michigan

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Smart-Quality Physical Education

Treatments: Behavioral: Smart-QPE

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07227935

HUM00241100

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to examine the effects of the technology-enhanced quality physical education (Smart-QPE) lessons on physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness, social emotional learning (SEL) skills, and mental well-being in school students.

Full description

Students in 4th-7th grades from 17 elementary and middle schools in Michigan are invited to participate in the study. Students will be assessed with cardiorespiratory fitness, social emotional learning skills, physical activity, and mental well-being at a baseline and the post-intervention tests before and after the Smart-QPE intervention. The Smart-QPE intervention include that PE teachers integrate the Heart Zone Moves System into their teaching quality physical education lesson in October and November, 2025.

Enrollment: 970 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 14 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• students are 4rd-7th grade students aged 8-14 years old;
• enroll in the school offered physical education classes;
• being able to read and write in English;
• students can skip any questions they don't want to answer as they respond to the survey questions at the baseline and the post-intervention; and
• students can stop the aerobic fitness test at the baseline and the post-intervention

Exclusion criteria

1. students cannot complete the survey, which means that students had difficulty understanding the meaning of each item due to severe cognitive impairment informed by the school nurse/social worker,
2. students do not submit the survey on time (within a week),
3. if a student only submit one survey either at baseline or at the post-intervention,
4. students cannot take the aerobic fitness test, which means that students had difficulty moving their body due to severe physical impairment informed by school nurse/social worker.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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970 participants in 1 patient group

Smart-Quality Physical Education

Experimental group

Description:

For the Smart-Quality Physical Education (Smart-QPE) intervention, PE teachers integrates the Heart Zone Moves System into teaching quality physical education lessons. During the Smart-QPE lessons, students wear the heart rate monitors synced to system to self-monitor their heart rates corresponding to light, moderate, and vigorous intensity physical activity.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Smart-QPE