Active and Healthy Kids in Telemark - a School Based Health Promoting Intervention
- Conditions
- Physical FitnessPhysical ActivityNutritionAcademic Performance
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Activity and diet
- Registration Number
- NCT03906851
- Lead Sponsor
- University of South-Eastern Norway
- Brief Summary
The study examine possible changes in physical activity, nutrition, and psychosocial health following the intervention "Active and Healthy Kids in Telemark". The intervention schools will received the intervention, whereas the control schools will continue as usual.
- Detailed Description
School based, health promoting interventions with focus on increase physical activity and improved nutrition seems to be a good solution to the challenges with low physical activity level, poor physical fitness, poor nutrition and psychosocial health challenges among children and adolescents. Low physical activity levels and physical fitness is recognized as one of the major public health challenges in the 21st century, and it negatively affects cognitive skills and academic performances. Providing school based health promoting interventions makes it easier to reach all children and adolescents regardless of social and cultural background, and hence reduce social inequalities in health.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 840
- Pupil 8th grade
- Inadequate language skills to complete questionnaire
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Activity and diet Activity and diet Multi-component, holistic model with a) physical activity, b) nutrition, and c) psychosocial work. A: physical activity will be provided as a pedagogical tool in subjects Mathematics, Norwegian and English B: Focus on school meals and menus in school cafeteria C: Psychosocial work with focus on the associations between physical activity, nutrition and psychosocial health. Collaboration between schools and school health services
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Physical activity (counts per minute) 4 days Objectively assessment of physical activity by accelerometer Actigraph GT3x
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Physical fitness: Andersen test 10 minutes Andersen test to measure endurance capacity, running test on 20 m track for 10 minutes. Number of metres ran during the 10 minutes is registered.
Physical fitness: standing long jump 2 minutes Standing long jump to measure explosive strength. Each subject gets two trials. Longest trial is registered in cm.
Nutrition and diet: questionnaire 5 minutes self-report through own-developed questionnaire (not standardised scale)
Health-related Quality of Life 10 minutes KIDSCREEN-27 (unabbreviated name) is a 27 item self-report instrument for health-related quality of life in children and adolescents. Each item is scored on a Likert scale from 1 to 5. The scores of each item are clustered into five dimensions: Physical Well-Being, Psychological Well-Being, Autonomy \& Parents, Peers \& Social Support and School Environment. Each dimension, or subscale, is scored as Rasch scales (i.e., sum of item scores for each subscale, transform the raw sumscores into Rasch person parameter estimates and T-values according to the KIDSCREEN-27 manual (KIDSCREEN group Europe, 2006)). For all these dimensions, higher Rasch scores and T-scores indicate better quality of life according to that given dimension.
Academic performance: grades in subjects Norwegian, mathematics and English 45 minutes Results from national tests which assess level of academic performance among the pupils
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
University College of Southeast Norway
🇳🇴Bø, Telemark, Norway