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Attention Capacity and Before-school Physical Activity Intervention Program

NCT03893149 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 150

Last updated 2019-03-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Despite the evidence and the potential of physical activity related to cognition and academic performance in children, the effects of a before-school physical activity program on these parameters remains unknown.

Conditions

  • Physical Activity
  • Behavior
  • Child Behavior
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Active-Start intervention

Supervised exercise training. The intervention is a physical activity intervention that consist of 5 times per week before starting the first school-class (8:00-8:30 a.m.), 5 times per week. Each session was previously planned and described in a manual dedicated to the study. These sessions were designed by the research team and delivered by a graduate in Sport The intervention program included sports games adapted to the age of the participants, playground games, dance and other recreational activities. The intensity of the main part of the sessions was moderate-to-vigorous according to a previous study and this intensity was confirmed by accelerometry. Also, different activities favoring social interactions were designed to facilitate the interactions between the participants at the end of the sessions (cold-down).

BEHAVIORAL

No Intervention

No-exercise

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universidad Pública de Navarra

    collaborator OTHER

  • Universidad Santo Tomas

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Antonio García-Hermoso, PhD · Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-03-03
Primary Completion
2018-12-01
Completion
2019-03-05

Countries

  • Chile

Study Locations

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