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Effectiveness of an Adventure-based Training Programme

NCT02517450 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2015-08-07

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Summary

This study tested the effectiveness of an adventure-based training programme in promoting the psychological well-being of primary schoolchildren. A randomised controlled trial was conducted, with 56 primary school pupils randomly assigned to the experimental group participating in the adventure-based training programme and 64 to the attention placebo control group.

Conditions

  • Healthy

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

an adventure-based training programme

The programme consisted of five education sessions (around 75 minutes each) and a day's adventure-based training camp at the end of the academic year

OTHER

a placebo control programme

Subjects in the control group were invited to attend five 75-minute sessions of leisure activities, organised by a community centre, which included a cartoon film show, handicraft workshops, a health talk on the prevention of influenza and age-appropriate physical leisure activities, such as table tennis, badminton, chess and Chinese billiards. Additionally, they were invited to join a day visit to Hong Kong Ocean Park at the end of the academic year.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The University of Hong Kong

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • William, Ho Cheung LI, PhD · School of Nursing, The University of Hong Kong

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-04-30
Primary Completion
2011-09-30
Completion
2011-10-31

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