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

April 20, 2023 updated by: University of South-Eastern Norway

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

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.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

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.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

840

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Norway
    • Telemark
      • Bø, Telemark, Norway, 3800
        • University College of Southeast Norway

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

11 years to 14 years (Child)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Pupil 8th grade

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Inadequate language skills to complete questionnaire

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Activity and diet

Multi-component, holistic model with a) physical activity, b) nutrition, and c) psychosocial work.

A: physical activity will be provided as a pedagogical tool in subjects Mathematics, Norwegian and English B: Focus on school meals and menus in school cafeteria C: Psychosocial work with focus on the associations between physical activity, nutrition and psychosocial health. Collaboration between schools and school health services
Behavioral: Activity and diet
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
No Intervention: Control
Schools are required to perform teaching activities, school meals and school cafeteria menus as usual

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Physical activity (counts per minute)
Time Frame: 4 days
Objectively assessment of physical activity by accelerometer Actigraph GT3x
4 days

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
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.
10 minutes
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.
2 minutes
Nutrition and diet: questionnaire
Time Frame: 5 minutes
self-report through own-developed questionnaire (not standardised scale)
5 minutes
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.
10 minutes
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
45 minutes

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

University of South-Eastern Norway

Investigators

  • Study Chair: Solfrid Bratland-Sanda, PhD, University College of Southeast Norway

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

September 1, 2017

Primary Completion (Actual)

June 30, 2020

Study Completion (Actual)

December 31, 2021

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

January 19, 2018

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 5, 2019

First Posted (Actual)

April 8, 2019

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

April 21, 2023

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 20, 2023

Last Verified

October 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • ACTIKIDS

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

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