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NCT Number: NCT03906851

Active and Healthy Kids in Telemark - a School Based Health Promoting Intervention

The study examine possible changes in physical activity, nutrition, and psychosocial health following the intervention "Active and Healthy Kids in Telemark". The intervention schools will received the intervention, whereas the control schools will continue as usual.

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Key information

Conditions

Academic Performance Behavior Motor Activity Nutrition Physical Activity Physical Fitness

Age range

11 year–14 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

University College of Southeast Norway

Bø, Telemark, 3800, Norway

About this study

School based, health promoting interventions with focus on increase physical activity and improved nutrition seems to be a good solution to the challenges with low physical activity level, poor physical fitness, poor nutrition and psychosocial health challenges among children and adolescents. Low physical activity levels and physical fitness is recognized as one of the major public health challenges in the 21st century, and it negatively affects cognitive skills and academic performances. Providing school based health promoting interventions makes it easier to reach all children and adolescents regardless of social and cultural background, and hence reduce social inequalities in health.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Pupil 8th grade

Exclusion criteria

  • Inadequate language skills to complete questionnaire

Treatment and study plan

Activity and diet

Behavioral

Physical activity: use of physical activity in theoretical subjects (3 x 30 min/week), physically active breaks (5 x 5 min/week), physical education (2 x 45 min/week) Nutrition: focus on school meals

Primary outcomes

  1. Physical activity (counts per minute)

    Time frame: 4 days

    Objectively assessment of physical activity by accelerometer Actigraph GT3x

Secondary outcomes

  1. Physical fitness: Andersen test

    Time frame: 10 minutes

    Andersen test to measure endurance capacity, running test on 20 m track for 10 minutes. Number of metres ran during the 10 minutes is registered.

  2. Physical fitness: standing long jump

    Time frame: 2 minutes

    Standing long jump to measure explosive strength. Each subject gets two trials. Longest trial is registered in cm.

  3. Nutrition and diet: questionnaire

    Time frame: 5 minutes

    self-report through own-developed questionnaire (not standardised scale)

  4. Health-related Quality of Life

    Time frame: 10 minutes

    KIDSCREEN-27 (unabbreviated name) is a 27 item self-report instrument for health-related quality of life in children and adolescents. Each item is scored on a Likert scale from 1 to 5. The scores of each item are clustered into five dimensions: Physical Well-Being, Psychological Well-Being, Autonomy & Parents, Peers & Social Support and School Environment. Each dimension, or subscale, is scored as Rasch scales (i.e., sum of item scores for each subscale, transform the raw sumscores into Rasch person parameter estimates and T-values according to the KIDSCREEN-27 manual (KIDSCREEN group Europe, 2006)). For all these dimensions, higher Rasch scores and T-scores indicate better quality of life according to that given dimension.

  5. Academic performance: grades in subjects Norwegian, mathematics and English

    Time frame: 45 minutes

    Results from national tests which assess level of academic performance among the pupils

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of South-Eastern Norway

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Registry information

Official study title

Effects of a School Based Health Promoting Intervention With Physical Activity and Nutrition Among 8th Graders in Telemark

Important dates

Study start
2017
Primary completion
2020
Study completion
2021
First posted
Apr 8, 2019
Registry last updated
Apr 21, 2023

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