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Alberta Project Promoting Active Living and Healthy Eating in Schools

NCT01914185 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 8663

Last updated 2020-03-25

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The objectives were to 1) make students eat healthier and be more active; and 2) prevent overweight and obesity. Children will therefore be less likely overweight or obese. Beginning in January 2008, the Alberta Project Promoting active Living and healthy Eating in Schools (APPLE Schools) was implemented in 10 schools throughout the Canadian Province, Alberta. Full-time School Health Facilitators were placed in each of the schools to implement what is know in Canada as Comprehensive School Health (CSH). In the United States, CSH is more commonly referred to as "Coordinated School Health", while the synonymous term "Health Promoting Schools" is often used in Australia and Europe. The project was evaluated annually in the spring from 2008 to 2011 and as of 2009 evaluations included the use of time-stamped pedometers. The comparison group included approximately 150 schools that were randomly selected to reflect the population of Alberta, Canada. Twenty of these randomly selected schools also participated in data collection which involved the use of time-stamped pedometers.

Conditions

  • Childhood Obesity

Interventions

OTHER

Comprehensive School Health (CSH)

APPLE Schools uses a CSH approach to health promotion which addresses health through four inter-related pillars 1) positive social and physical environments 2) teaching and learning 3) healthy school policy 4) partnerships and services. A key component of the APPLE Schools intervention was the placement of a full-time School Health Facilitator in each school. Their role was to facilitate the development and implementation of the project, to ensure that it met the schools' unique needs for health promotion, and that it aligned with the core principles of CSH.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Alberta

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Paul J Veugelers, PhD · University of Alberta

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
5 Years
Max Age
14 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-01-31
Primary Completion
2011-06-30
Completion
2011-06-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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