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The Impact of School-Based Intervention for 9-13-year-old School Children with Overweight and Obesity

NCT06671964 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 403

Last updated 2024-11-04

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Summary

Childhood obesity is a major issue for the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Interventions modifying people's nutritional behavior and changing their dietary habits can potentially address this problem. This study assessed the effectiveness of the 6-month school-based nutritional educational intervention on fruit and vegetable intake, nutrition knowledge, anthropometric measures, and practice, attitude, and self-efficacy measures.

Conditions

  • Overweight Children
  • Obese Children and Adolescents

Interventions

OTHER

Anthropometric measurements

Anthropometric measurements of the students, including weight, height, muscle mass, fat quantity, and waist circumference, were measured. The WHO BMI charts were utilized for classification. Stratified Random selection

OTHER

Questionnaire

The collection of data was performed using the "Atlas questionnaire" (Al-Hazzaa et al., 2011) and "nutrition knowledge and healthy lifestyle behavior" questionnaire (Kalender et al., 2011) with additional questions related to self-efficacy and dietary practices adapted from the literature (Becher, 2009; Voss et al., 2017; Kowalski et al., 2004). Stratified Random selection

OTHER

Educational sessions

The topics that covered included a healthy eating lifestyle, energy balance, food portion control, healthy snacking, the importance of physical activity and healthy eating, dietary practices, and nutrition-related self-efficacy.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • United Arab Emirates University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Habiba Ali · UAEU

  • ESE Research Office · Emarites School Establishment

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-08-27
Primary Completion
2022-03-19
Completion
2023-02-28

Countries

  • United Arab Emirates

Study Locations

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