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Clinical Trials/ACTRN12607000644460
ACTRN12607000644460
Completed
Not Applicable

The 'Fitness Improvement, Lifestyle Awareness' Program: A secondary school fitness and lifestyle program to improve cardiorespiratory fitness and prevent unhealthy weight gain in adolescent boys

Dr Tony Okely0 sites32 target enrollmentDecember 19, 2007

Overview

Phase
Not Applicable
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
ow cardiorespiratory fitnessAdolescent overweight/obesityPhysical inactivity
Sponsor
Dr Tony Okely
Enrollment
32
Status
Completed
Last Updated
6 years ago

Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Registry
who.int
Start Date
December 19, 2007
End Date
TBD
Last Updated
6 years ago
Study Type
Interventional
Sex
Male

Investigators

Sponsor
Dr Tony Okely

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • Sixty students with the lowest cardio\-respiratory results were invited to participate in the trial. According to the NSW SPANS survey, in comparison to other boys of similar age, these targeted boys’ cardio\-respiratory fitness results were lower than the 50th percentile (Booth et al., 2006\).
  • Booth, M., Okely, A.D., Denney\-Wilson, E., Hardy, L.L., Yang, B. \& Dobbins, T. (2006\). NSW Schools Physical Activity and Nutrition Survey (SPANS) 2004: Full report. Sydney: NSW Department of Health.

Exclusion Criteria

  • Boys only in 7th grade who attended the school the trial was being conducted. Those students with medium to high levels of cardio\-respiratory fitness (above the 50th percentile) were not invited to participate in the trial.

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

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