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Social Exergaming for Healthy Weight in Adolescent Girls

NCT02003963 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 41

Last updated 2024-03-29

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Summary

The purpose is to evaluate the feasibility of a 12-week exergaming dance program for adolescent girls. This study combines dancing, video games, and a full body work-out to test if video games can increase physical activity and promote healthy weight in adolescent girls. We hypothesize that girls who play the dance exergames, versus those in the control group, will lose weight, decrease body fat and visceral fat, improve cardiovascular health, increase physical activity, and improve psychosocial health including self-confidence and quality of life.

Conditions

  • Obesity and Physical Inactivity in Adolescents

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Klub Kinect

Dance Central and Just Dance are a series of rhythm games developed by Harmonix Music Systems exclusively for the Xbox 360 Kinect. The Dance Central suite of games (Dance Central 1, 2, and 3) and Just Dance will be played on the Xbox 360+ Kinect gaming console, which employs whole body movement using an infrared sensor that tracks body movements such that an external controller device is not required. The player performs dance moves demonstrated by on-screen characters and set to popular music, with a choice of over 650 dance moves, 90 dance routines, and over 300 songs. The exergaming condition will wear a pedometer to record total steps during game play, and they will participate in private weigh-ins at each session to track body weight over the 12-week intervention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Pennington Biomedical Research Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Amanda E Staiano, PhD · Pennington Biomedical Research Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
14 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-11-30
Primary Completion
2014-08-31
Completion
2014-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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