Fighting Climate Change: Urban Greennes, Active Mobility and Health Co-benefits.

Phase 4

Completed

• Conditions: Respiratory and Allergic Symptoms
• Interventions: Other: Manteinance and care intervention on the green areas.

• Registration Number: NCT04742179
• Lead Sponsor: Istituto per la Ricerca e l'Innovazione Biomedica

Brief Summary

This is a prospective, non-randomized, controlled, interventional study aiming to assess, in a primary school in the city of Palermo, the health effects of a maintenance and care intervention of the school's green areas.

All children of the third, fourth and fifth classes of two school complexes of the same primary school will be selected. One complex will undergo maintenance and care of the green areas and gardens inside the school. The other complex will serve as a control group and will not undergo any intervention.

The study will involve three phases.

1. During the first phase (prior to the intervention) respiratory and allergic symptoms will be assessed through a standardized questionnaire to be administered to students, parents and teachers in both the school complexes.

2. During the second phase, the maintenance and care intervention plan will be implemented in the experimental complex.

3. During the third phase, 1 week after the maintenance intervention, respiratory and allergic symptoms will be re-assessed through a standardized questionnaire to be administered to the same students, parents and teachers in both the school complexes.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2021-01-28
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-02-02
• Study First Posted: 2021-02-05
• Study Start: 2022-01-11
• Primary Completion: 2022-05-11
• Study Completion: 2022-05-11
• Status Verified: 2022-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-12-22
• Last Update Posted: 2022-12-23

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 175

Inclusion Criteria

• male or female gender
• age between 7 and 11 years

Exclusion Criteria

• no exclusion criteria

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Experimental group	Manteinance and care intervention on the green areas.	The children belonging to the classes of the school complex undergoing the maintenance intervention.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Conjunctivitis symptoms at baseline	Before the maintenance intervention	Presence of conjunctivitis symptoms before the maintenance intervention
Rhinitis symptoms at follow-up	7 days after the maintenance intervention	Presence of rhinitis symptoms after the maintenance intervention
Conjunctivitis symptoms at follow-up	7 days after the maintenance intervention	Presence of conjunctivitis symptoms after the maintenance intervention
Asthma symptoms at baseline	Before the maintenance intervention	Presence of asthma symptoms before the maintenance intervention
Rhinitis symptoms at baseline	Before the maintenance intervention	Presence of rhinitis symptoms before the maintenance intervention
Asthma symptoms at follow-up	7 days after the maintenance intervention	Presence of asthma symptoms after the maintenance intervention

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Institute of Translational Pharmacology; 🇮🇹 Palermo, Italy