NCT01699295

Physical Activity and Academic Achievement Across the Curriculum (A+PAAC)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 584 (actual)
• Sponsor: Joseph Donnelly · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 10 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

There is currently considerable interest in both improving academic achievement (No Child Left Behind) and reducing the rates of obesity and its associated negative health consequences in elementary school students. Increased physical activity (PA) offers a potential intervention to address both issues. Evidence is available which suggests an association of PA with both academic achievement and obesity, and an association between obesity and academic achievement. To provide increased PA while maintaining academic instruction time, we developed a program we call "Physical Activity Across the Curriculum" (PAAC) in which regular classroom teachers were trained to deliver academic lessons using moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) for 20 minutes/d, 5 days/wk. This study is looking to compare academic achievement between students in elementary schools that participate in academic lessons taught through MVPA (PAAC) to students that do not (CON).

Conditions

• Intelligence
• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	A+PAAC	academic lessons delivered by regular classroom teachers using moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) for 20 minutes/day, 5 days/week.
BEHAVIORAL	CON	lessons taught by regular classroom teachers using traditional/regular sedentary lessons

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-09-01
• Primary completion: 2014-06-01
• Completion: 2015-06-01
• First posted: 2012-10-03
• Last updated: 2016-01-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States