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School Intervention Program to Promote Healthy Lifestyle Among Male Adolescent Students in King Faisal Residential City, Jeddah, Western Region, 2014-15

NCT03885700 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 148

Last updated 2019-03-22

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Summary

Through a cluster randomized control trial, 148 male adolescents' students were randomly assigned into either intervention group who received an educational program for two months (n=79), or control groups (n=69) who didn't attend the program. The principle outcomes were the changes in physical activities, consumption of healthy diet, sedentary life habits and anthropometric measurements. The outcomes of the intervention group were compared with their own baseline readings, as well as with the readings of the control group.

Rationale:

* Saudi adolescents are in need for more exploration of their health problems and related health behaviors and application of intervention preventive services.
* As a National Guard community medicine resident : I have a major interest in the health of adolescent and in fulfilling the aim of the school health programs of application of interventional preventive service that will target this vulnerable risky group.

Aim:

\- Promote healthy life style among National Guard adolescents age group by application of interventional preventive program.

Objectives:

I. To measure physical activity patterns , sedentary behaviors and dietary habit among randomly selected adolescent in intervention and control group at National Guard Schools in Jeddah city 2014-2015.

II. To implement an interventional school promotional program among the school children from the addressed age group in 2014-2015.

III. To measure the effect of the interventional school promotional program among the two groups in relation to demographic, socioeconomic and other factors related to health in 2014-2015 .

Conditions

  • Physical Activity
  • Sedentary Behaviors
  • Dietary Habits
  • Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Educational program for 2 months

The intervention was suggested based on the recommendations for adolescents' healthy diet and physical activity, it was derived from the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans and Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010 by the U.S. HHS, Physical activity guidelines for children and adolescents by CPS 2012. The Food Guide Pyramid by the USDA, Nutrition \&Healthy Eating by Mayo clinic \& CDC website. The program was modified according to the age of the child. This plan was typically pursued in a School-based Intervention to Promote Healthy Lifestyles in Sousse, Tunisia, by Harrabi et al. The 1st month covered the healthy diet \& the 2nd month covered the physical activity as follow: * 1st \& 5th week: A 60-minutesession in health education. * 2nd \& 6th week: Group counselling. * 3rd \& 7th week: Students were divided into 8 groups \& each group was asked to make presentation about a task related to the topic. * 4th \& 8th week: Discussing the presentation.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • King Abdullah International Medical Research Center

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
10 Years
Max Age
19 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-01-01
Primary Completion
2015-03-30
Completion
2015-03-30

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