NCT01161212

REGULarity of Physical ActivitieS (REGUL'APS)

Physical Activity, Health-related Quality of Life and Corpulence Among French Schoolchildren

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,600 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Nancy · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In French primary schools, children participate in 3 compulsory hours of physical education (PE) each week unless they have a medical contra-indication. But, there is no scientific evidence (randomized trial) that a weekly physical activity splitting up of these 3 hours of PE brings or not the same effects, particularly to prevent overweight or obesity. Regul'aps is a cluster randomized controlled trial which wants to evaluate whether splitting up the 3 hours into 3 or 4 sessions (vs. 1-2 sessions) of PE per week has an effect on speed of a BMI increase and on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) over the school year. Study hypothesis: reduction of speed of increase of BMI and an increase of HRQoL

Conditions

• Overweight
• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Physical education sessions	3(60 minutes each) or 4 (45 minutes each) short sessions of physical education (PE) sessions
OTHER	Physical education sessions	1 (3 hours) or 2 long PE sessions (1 hour and 30 minutes each)

Timeline

• Start date: 2005-09-01
• Primary completion: 2006-09-01
• Completion: 2006-09-01
• First posted: 2010-07-13
• Last updated: 2010-07-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France