MOVEOUT: A Cluster RCT Investigating Education Outside the Classroom

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficacy of an education outside the classroom (EOtC) intervention on adolescents' physical activity, school motivation, academic achievement, and wellbeing. The study will also investigate which pedagogical and didactical elements of EOtC are important to achieve more physical activity, school motivation, and wellbeing.

Conditions

• Physical Inactivity
• Psychological
• Motivation
• School Burnout

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

The TEACHOUT intervention

The core component of the Intervention is a two-day training course on EOtC given to elementary school teachers followed by the teachers committing to apply EOtC for at least five hours a week, delivered in 1-2 weekly sessions for one school year (in this study, August 2022 to June 2023). In the training course knowledge and understanding of the practice and theory of EOtC is facilitated in presentations and talks supplemented by illustrative examples in workshops and plenum discussions on local implementation. The 1-2 weekly EOtC sessions during the school year 2022-2023 may be delivered by one or more teachers simultaneously in various school subjects, at various places outside the school buildings.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen

  collaborator OTHER

• Center for Clinical Research and Prevention

  collaborator NETWORK

• University of Copenhagen

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Glen Nielsen, PhD · University of Copenhagen

• Mads Bølling, PhD · Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen

• Peter Elsborg, PhD · Center for Clinical Research and Prevention

• Charlotte D Klinker, PhD · Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen

• Peter Bentsen, PhD · Center for Clinical Research and Prevention

• Lærke M Grønfeldt, Msc · Center for Clinical Research and Prevention

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2022-02-23

Primary Completion

2023-06-21

Completion

2023-06-27

Countries

• Denmark

Study Locations