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Exercise & Overweight Children's Cognition

NCT02227095 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 175

Last updated 2015-03-06

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Summary

This research focuses on overweight, sedentary children whose health, cognition, and academic performance are therefore at risk, and who may be particularly responsive to exercise interventions.

This study will determine whether regular exercise per se (i.e. compared to attention control, or placebo, condition) benefits children's cognition and achievement, and will provide insight into neural mechanisms. A substudy will examine exercise-induced changes in brain structure.

Provision of comprehensive evidence for the benefits of exercise on children's health may reduce barriers to vigorous physical activity programs during a childhood obesity epidemic by persuading policymakers, schools and communities that time spent in physical activity enhances, rather than detracts from, learning.

Conditions

  • Overweight and Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Exercise

Heart rate monitors worn by each child at each session

BEHAVIORAL

After-school program

Supervised recreational program with token economy

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Georgia

    collaborator OTHER

  • San Francisco State University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Augusta University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Catherine L Davis, PhD · Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University

  • Jennifer E McDowell, PhD · University of Georgia

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
8 Years
Max Age
11 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-05-31
Primary Completion
2013-05-31
Completion
2014-04-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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