Effectiveness of a Physical Activity Intervention on the Obesity of Schoolchildren

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Physical Activity; Obesity; Children
• Interventions: Behavioral: Movi2 Program

• Registration Number: NCT01277224
• Lead Sponsor: University of Castilla-La Mancha

Brief Summary

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

Detailed Description

The prevalence of overweight in Spanish children in the puberty age is among the highest in the world and increasing quickly. The investigators recently evaluated an after-school program of recreational physical activity to control obesity and other cardiovascular risk factors in primary school children in Cuenca. This program, known as the Movi program, reduced adiposity, increased serum apolipoprotein (apo) A-I concentration and reduced apo B concentration over one-year period.

Though the intervention MOVI had great acceptance between the children and his families, and it demonstrated to be effective opposite to the obesity, his results were relatively modest. For it, our hypothesis of work, which justifies this new project, is that a major intensity of the intervention, and a major weekly duration extending this one to the weekend, it might improve the efficiency on the obesity.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-09
• Study First Submitted: 2011-01-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2011-01-13
• Study First Posted: 2011-01-14
• Primary Completion: 2011-10
• Study Completion: 2011-10
• Status Verified: 2013-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2013-05-24
• Last Update Posted: 2013-05-27

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1200

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Movi2 Program	Movi2 Program	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Skin-fold thickness	1 year	Over 1 years, the Movi program will reduce the prevalence of excess weight in schoolchildren and improve other cardiovascular risk factors.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Physical activity, physical fitness, sleep, and quality of life	1 year