Exercise looks after you: Piloting the programme to prevent obesity in childre
Completed
- Conditions
- ObesityNutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN97887613
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of Extremadura (Spain)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 200
Inclusion Criteria
1. Children aged 8 to 12 years old
2. Obesity type I and II (Body Mass Index >= age and gender adjusted 95 percentile)
3. Capacity to walk for 10 minutes
Exclusion Criteria
1. Diabetes type I
2. Hyperactivity
3. Morbid obesity
4. Contraindications to do exercise (biological or mental)
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Level of physical activity (minutes per week) in sports and leisure time, assessed by a questionnaire at 12 months<br>2. Fitness tests (agility, hand-grip, jump test, velocity, endurance, flexibility, body composition, waist-hip index) at baseline and 3 months<br>3. Health care costs, assessed at baseline and 3 months <br>4. Health-related quality of life, measured using the EuroQol EQ-5D, EQ-5D (Child) and PedsQSl questionnaires at 12 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Nutritional intake (24 h recall), assessed at baseline and 3 months<br>2. Blood samples (cholesterol, glucose, Hb1Ac), assessed at baseline and 3 months