Education and Fitness: EDUFIT Study

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Physical Fitness; Body Composition; Lipid Metabolism
• Interventions: Behavioral: Physical activity program

• Registration Number: NCT01098968
• Lead Sponsor: Universidad de Granada

Brief Summary

EDUFIT is a group-Randomized Controlled Trial specifically designed to enhance physical fitness and other health-related factors in a school setting in adolescents.

Detailed Description

Physical fitness is a powerful marker of cardiovascular health already at early stages in life. To promote physical fitness enhancement from the school is therefore needed and this is the main aim of the EDUFIT study (EDUcation for FITness).

The participants were randomly allocated to control group (CG), experimental group 1 (EG1) and experimental group 2 (EG2). The CG received 2 physical education sessions/week, the EG1 received 4 physical education sessions/week (volume increased) and the EG2 received 4 physical education sessions/week of high intensity (volume+intensity increased). Several health-related parameters were assessed before and after a 16-weeks intervention: physical fitness (primary outcome), body composition (secondary), and lipid-metabolic profile, ventilatory parameters, blood pressure, and cognitive and academic performance (tertiary outcomes).

The hypothesis of the EDUFIT project was that to double the number of physical education classes will improve physical fitness in adolescents. The confirmation of the hypothesis could have important public health implications.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2007-01
• Primary Completion: 2007-06
• Study Completion: 2007-09
• Study First Submitted: 2010-04-02
• Study First Submitted QC: 2010-04-02
• Study First Posted: 2010-04-05
• Status Verified: 2010-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2011-09-07
• Last Update Posted: 2011-09-08

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 70

Inclusion Criteria

• Adolescents enrolled in the Spanish Educational System, free of any muscle-skeletal problem not allowing take part in Physical Education lessons or fitness testing.

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Exclusion Criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of diabetes
• Pregnancy
• Drugs/alcohol abuse
• In general, any chronic disease that does not permit the person to perform exercise and physical education lessons.

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
PE Volume	Physical activity program	4 Physical Education sessions/week (increased volume)
PE Volume + Intensity	Physical activity program	4 Physical Education sessions/week of high intensity (increased volume and intensity)

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Health-related physical fitness	4 months	Cardiorespiratory fitness; musculoskeletal fitness; motor fitness.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Cardiovascular disease risk factors	4 months	Body composition; lipid-metabolic profile; blood pressure; ventilatory parameters.

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

IES Alcántara (Consejería de Educación, Formación y Empleo de la Región de Murcia); 🇪🇸 Alcantarilla, Murcia, Spain

University of Granada; 🇪🇸 Granada, Spain