A School-based Physical Activity Promotion Intervention in Children. PREVIENE Project

Summary

Background:The lack of physical activity and increasing time spent in sedentary behaviours during childhood place importance on developing low cost,easy-to-implement school-based interventions to increase physical activity among children. The PREVIENE Project will evaluate the effectiveness of five innovative, simple, and feasible interventions(active commuting to school, Physical Education lessons, active school recess physical activity, sleep health promotion, and an integrated program incorporating all 4 interventions) to improve physical activity, fitness, anthropometry, sleep health, academic achievement,and health-related quality of life in primary school children.

Methods:A total of 350 children (grade 3; 8-9 years of age) from six schools in Granada (Spain) will be enrolled in one of the 8-week interventions (one intervention per school; 50 children per school) or a control group (no intervention school; 50 children). Outcomes will include physical activity (measured by accelerometry), physical fitness (assessed using the ALPHA fitness battery), anthropometry (height, weight and waist circumference), sleep health (measured by accelerometers, a sleep diary, and sleep health questionnaires), academic achievement (grades from the official school's records), and health-related quality of life (child and parental questionnaires).To assess the effectiveness of the different interventions on objectively measured PA and the other outcomes, the generalized linear model will be used.

Discussion: The PREVIENE Project will provide the information about the effectiveness and implementation of different school-based interventions for physical activity promotion in primary schoolchildren.

Keywords:children, physical activity, school,active commuting, Physical Education, school recess, sleep health, fitness, academic achievement, health-related quality of life.

Conditions

• Motor Activity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Active commuting to/from school

Active transport to/from school on foot or by bike will be promoted

BEHAVIORAL

Active Physical Education lessons

Specific lessons designed for increasing moderate to vigorous physical activity in Physical Education will be applied

BEHAVIORAL

Active school recess

Teachers will design games and activities and will encourage children for being active

BEHAVIORAL

Sleep health promotion

This intervention will aim to raise the awareness of the importance of having a good quality sleep at night and to teach healthy sleep behaviours that will contribute to improving sleep hygiene

BEHAVIORAL

School global intervention

A simultaneous implementation of all four interventions (see the others arms) will be examined in one of the intervention schools.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Universidad de Granada

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Pablo Tercedor, PhD · Universidad de Granada

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

8 Years

Max Age

9 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2018-01-09

Primary Completion

2018-01-17

Completion

2019-10-22