"Escola em Ação" (School in Action)

Summary

Background: The health promotion actions carried out in the school environment have positive effects on reducing risk factors for chronic diseases in adolescents. Interdisciplinary strategies involving school and family to increase the level of physical activity among adolescents, inside and outside the school, are essential to encourage healthier lifestyles.

Aim: To determine whether a 24-weeks interdisciplinary intervention program promotes improvement in the level of physical activity, physical fitness, sleep quality, life satisfaction, eating habits and reduce the sedentary behavior of schoolchildren aged 10 to 13 years of public schools in the city of Presidente Prudente, São Paulo, Brazil.

The intervention: Includes training of teacher Physical Education in the principles of self-determination theory and ecological theory at practical applications for motivating adolescents in physical activities and sports. The students will be given information on the benefits of a physically active lifestyle and will be encouraged to participated the new opportunities for physical activity in their school and community. The program will offer physical activity strategies over the 24-weeks during class Physical Education, afternoon recess and active lesson breaks in theoretical classes. Nutritional guidelines and gardening experience will be developed to encourage healthy eating habits among schoolchildren and to reduce salt, oil and sugar in the preparation of school lunch.

Methods/design: The project, which being conducted as cluster randomized trial, is to evaluated whit in a mixed methods, including qualitative and quantitative approach will be used for the construction of the actions integrated to the school physical education curriculum and evaluation of the program by the participants and supporters. The RE-AIM evaluation metric (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance) is used to guide the validation this program.

Conditions

• Physical Activity
• Eating Behavior
• Sedentary Lifestyle
• Adolescent Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Training

Training program 30 hours accumulated before, during and after intervention

BEHAVIORAL

Individual level

7 to 10 minutes in Physical Education in class time, 3 sections for week during lunch break

BEHAVIORAL

Organizational level

Inclusion of actions in the school curriculum: counseling sections with health for parents and adolescent, active lesson breaks during theoretical class, gardening experience in school, nutrition guidance for school lunch professionals.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Ismael Freitas Junior, Phd · CELAPAM

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

DOUBLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

10 Years

Max Age

14 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2017-05-08

Primary Completion

2017-06-09

Completion

2018-12-07

Countries

• Brazil

Study Locations