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Multimedia Hydration Education During Physical Education in Schoolchildren

NCT07669909 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 204

Last updated 2026-06-25

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Summary

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Staying well hydrated helps children stay healthy and concentrate, and it matters most during physical activity. Yet many young children do not drink enough water during physical education (PE) lessons, and some begin the school day already short of fluid.

This study tested whether a short, fun teaching programme could help young children learn about hydration and drink more during PE. The programme used slideshows with simple words, pictures, and short animations, delivered by the children's own teacher for 15 minutes at the start of each PE class, once a week for six weeks.

The study took place in two public primary schools in Sfax, Tunisia, and involved 204 first-grade children aged 6 to 7 years. Twelve classes took part. Whole classes (not individual children) were placed by chance into one of two groups: six classes received the teaching programme, and six classes continued their usual PE with no hydration lessons. Comparing whole classes in this way is called a cluster-randomized trial.

The researchers measured three things each week: how much the children knew about hydration (using a simple yes/no questionnaire), whether they drank water during the PE session, and the small change in each child's body weight across the session, which is an indirect sign of fluid loss. The aim was to see whether learning about hydration in an engaging way actually changes children's drinking behaviour during activity, not just what they know.

Conditions

  • Hydration
  • Dehydration
  • Health Behavior
  • Drinking Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Multimedia hydration education programme

Six weekly 15-minute multimedia education sessions delivered in Arabic by the regular PE teacher before the physical-activity component of PE, grounded in the Behaviour Change Wheel / COM-B model. Content progressed from foundational hydration concepts to applied drinking behaviour and contextual factors.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Sfax

    collaborator OTHER

  • The Higher Institute of Sport and Physical Education of Sfax

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Max Age
7 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-02-07
Primary Completion
2025-04-02
Completion
2025-04-02

Countries

  • Tunisia

Study Locations

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Diseases

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