NCT02003963

Social Exergaming for Healthy Weight in Adolescent Girls

Klub Kinect: Social Exergaming for Healthy Weight in Adolescent Girls

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 41 (actual)
• Sponsor: Pennington Biomedical Research Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 14 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose is to evaluate the feasibility of a 12-week exergaming dance program for adolescent girls. This study combines dancing, video games, and a full body work-out to test if video games can increase physical activity and promote healthy weight in adolescent girls. We hypothesize that girls who play the dance exergames, versus those in the control group, will lose weight, decrease body fat and visceral fat, improve cardiovascular health, increase physical activity, and improve psychosocial health including self-confidence and quality of life.

Detailed description

Klub Kinect will last about 14 weeks for each participant. The program begins with a 3.5 hour clinic visit, the intervention lasts for 12 weeks, and the participant comes in for a final 3.5 hour clinic visit.

Conditions

• Obesity and Physical Inactivity in Adolescents

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Klub Kinect	Dance Central and Just Dance are a series of rhythm games developed by Harmonix Music Systems exclusively for the Xbox 360 Kinect. The Dance Central suite of games (Dance Central 1, 2, and 3) and Just Dance will be played on the Xbox 360+ Kinect gaming console, which employs whole body movement using an infrared sensor that tracks body movements such that an external controller device is not required. The player performs dance moves demonstrated by on-screen characters and set to popular music, with a choice of over 650 dance moves, 90 dance routines, and over 300 songs. The exergaming condition will wear a pedometer to record total steps during game play, and they will participate in private weigh-ins at each session to track body weight over the 12-week intervention.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-11-01
• Primary completion: 2014-08-01
• Completion: 2014-08-01
• First posted: 2013-12-06
• Last updated: 2024-03-29
• Results posted: 2017-04-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States