School-based Program Promotion of Self-regulation in Eating Healthy and Oral Health (SRH)

School-based Program of Promotion of Self-regulation for Healthy Eating and Oral Health: Study in the Context of the School Health Program in Brazil

The Health and Education Ministries of Brazil launched the Health in School Program - PSE - in 2007. The purpose of the PSE is twofold: articulate the actions of the education and health systems to identify risk factors and prevent them; and promote the education for health in the public elementary school system. In the health field, the self-regulation (SR) construct can contribute to the understanding of life habits which can affect the improvement of individuals' health. This study aims to present a school-based program, Promotion of Self-Regulation in Health (SRH), which adds the self-regulation approach to the topics of healthy eating and oral health of the PSE for elementary school. A study of a randomized clinical trial enrolling the 5th grade students of public elementary schools from the south of Brazil is presented. The study has two phases. In Phase 1, teachers and health professionals will participate in a training program on SRH, and in Phase 2, they will conduct an intervention in class: Promotion of SRH. The participants were randomly assigned into three groups: Condition I followed the PSE program, Condition II group followed the PSE and the SRH program, and the control group did not enroll in either of the health promotion programs. For the evaluation of the study, the following measures and instruments were applied: Body Mass Index (BMI), Simplified Oral Hygiene Index (OHI-S), Previous Day Food Questionnaire (PFDQ), Declarative Knowledge for Health Instrument, Food Preference Instrument, Student´s Attitudes and Perceptions and Parents Perceptions and Influences on the Health Instrument, Food Availability and Oral Health Instrument, Self-Regulation for Health Scale, Self-Efficacy for Health Scale. Students in the three groups will be assessed five times throughout the year: before the beginning of the intervention program, three months into intervention, six months into intervention, at the end of the intervention, and, finally, six months post intervention to check for the impact of the program on children health.

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Self-regulation in Health
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Program Self-regulation in health

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 429
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Brazil
  • Rio Grande do Sul
    • Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
      • Cleidilene Ramos Magalhaes

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 9 years to 13 years (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Teachers must teach a 5th grade class in a public elementary school
• Health professionals must be working in a primary care unit;
• Students must be enrolled in the 5th grade in a public elementary school;
• Parents/guardians: must be responsible for a child enrolled in a 5th grade class in a public elementary school
• All participants must be volunteers and must sign the Free and Informed Consent Term or Term of Assent (parents / guardians and students);

Exclusion Criteria:

Potential participants who do not meet all the inclusion criteria, including 5th grade students with special educational needs that limit their cognitive autonomy, will be excluded from the study

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Self-regulation skills for healthy eating and oral health	Development of self-regulatory competencies for healthier eating and oral health in childhood. These variables wiil be evaluated through Self-Regulation for Health Scale.	3 years
Self-efficacy perception for healthy eating and oral health	Develop increased self-efficacy perception for healthy eating and oral health care. These variables wiil be evaluated through Self-efficacy for Health Scale.	3 years
Declarative Knowledge for Health	Questions for evaluate children knowledge have about healthy eating and oral health. Will be evaluated the numbers of correct answer. These variable These variable wiil be evaluated through Declarative Knowledge for Health Instrument.	3 years

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Body Mass Index	Numbers of students with Index of overweight, obesity and thinness in the study population. These measure will be evaluated trough BMI.	3 years
Simplified Oral Hygiene Index - OHI-S	Numbers and classification of Index of oral hygiene (good, regular and poor), Identified by the presence of dental plaque in the study population.	3 years
Food consumption information	Seeks information from schoolchildren about the food they consumed on the day prior. will be evaluated the food group consumed in each meals on three days of week. These variable will evaluated by Previous Day Food Questionnaire .	3 years

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Federal University of Health Science of Porto Alegre

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): June 1, 2015
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 1, 2016
• Study Completion (Anticipated): January 1, 2018

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 17, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 17, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): July 19, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 19, 2017
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 17, 2017
• Last Verified: July 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: Self-regulation in health

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No