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Children Education and Cardiovascular Risk Reduction in Their Parents

NCT01416545 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 520

Last updated 2019-03-26

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Summary

This study aims to evaluate if a multidisciplinary educational program in primary cardiovascular prevention for children could improve the Framingham Score index of their parents after one year.

Conditions

  • Risk Reduction

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Educational program in cardiovascular prevention

a weekly educational program in cardiovascular prevention with a multidisciplinary heath team during the year 2010. This intervention tried to teach to these children, in different manners appropriate for their age, concepts of healthy nutrition, avoidance of tobacco and physical activity. Both at the inclusion in the study and one year later we collect data of parents and their children of the two groups, in a single weekend, including nutritional and exercise survey, measures of weigh, height, waist circumference, arterial blood pressure, and laboratorial exams.

BEHAVIORAL

Lifestyle counseling

The control group received written educational material directed for their parents and related to healthy lifestyle (nutrition, exercise and smoke quitting).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • University of Sao Paulo

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Bruno Caramelli, MD, PhD · University of Sao Paulo

  • Luciana S Fornari, MD, PhD · University of Sao Paulo

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
5 Years
Max Age
11 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-01-31
Primary Completion
2010-12-31
Completion
2011-06-30

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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