The Movement Program for an Active and Healthy Lifestyle in Adolescents

Kelly Samara da Silva

Status and phase: Unknown; Early Phase 1

Conditions: Adolescent Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: The Movement Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02944318

1.259.910

Details and patient eligibility

About

School is a favorable environment for the development of actions aimed at healthy behavioral changes. This project proposes to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention program on aspects of lifestyle, with a focus on physical activity (PA) and reducing sedentary behaviors, and the relationship of these factors with the academic performance of students in the school from Florianopolis, SC, Brazil.

This is a randomized controlled intervention study enroling classes of 7th to 9th grade of fundamental education.

The intervention program will last for one year (about ten months), with three focuses: training of teachers, educational and environmental changes to behavior change.

Enrollment: 1,400 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 15 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Students of both sexes Students aged 12-15 years Students who are enrolled in 7-9 grade classes

Exclusion criteria

Students younger than 12 years-old and older than 15 years-old Students with uncompleted data at baseline and/or 10-months follow-up Students who dropout the school

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,400 participants in 2 patient groups

"The Movement" Program

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention program was structured according three main components: (1) training and activities in general curriculum and Physical Education classes; (2) active facilities in the school environment; (3) health education in school community.

Treatment:

Behavioral: The Movement Program

No intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

Schools in the control group will maintain a regular academic year with conventional activities. Thus schools have two weekly Physical Education classes which are organized by according to the perspective of their teachers. Besides that, the Program "Saúde na Escola" is also performed.