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Reconstructing Schoolyards With Greenery to Increase Schoolchildren's Physical Activity and Mitigate Climate Changes

NCT05865782 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 3600

Last updated 2024-06-20

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

By reconstructing schoolyards with greenery, physical activity levels among children can be increased at the population level and also mitigate health and environmental risks resulting from rising climate changes in urban areas.

The overarching purpose of the proposed project is to:

i. increase physical activity levels among school-aged children, independent of socioeconomic factors, and thus affect short- and long-term health outcomes on a population level ii. establish an evidence-based bottom-up approach for schoolyard reconstructions iii. evaluate the cost-effectiveness of schoolyard reconstructions with greening on health outcomes and its environmental impact

Conditions

  • Physical Inactivity
  • Environmental Exposure
  • Mental Health Wellness 1

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Schoolyard reconstruction

The current study will be designed as a quasi-experimental stepped-wedge intervention where schools undertaking schoolyard reconstruction will act as both control and intervention schools. By using the stepped-wedge study design, with internal control schools, will enable the control for the seasonal variation in children's physical activity levels and for the age-related decline in physical activity throughout childhood. That is, without control schools we would be unable to attribute a change in physical activity to the reconstruction of the schoolyards - as any difference in physical activity before and after the schoolyard reconstruction in the intervention group could be explained by the natural change in physical activity over time.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The City of Stockholm

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Cancerfonden

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Arwidssonstiftelsen

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Karolinska Institutet

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Daniel Berglind, PhD · Karolinska Institutet

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-05-22
Primary Completion
2027-05-30
Completion
2027-11-30

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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