Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02087774
Brief Physical Activity Program to Increase Physical Fitness in Elementary School Children
The Effects of a Brief Physical Activity Program on Elementary School Students' Physical Fitness
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 300 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Marshall University · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- —
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
The investigators hypothesized that the addition of 6 minutes of exercise during the school day would increase physical fitness in elementary school students as demonstrated by longer distances run in 2 minutes and a decrease in heart rate at the end of the exercise.
Detailed description
Intervention group played music for 6 minutes each morning in addition to recess and physical activity classes. Baseline fitness data and after-intervention data were compared.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | 6 minutes activity | Group added 6 minutes of physical activity daily during school day. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2013-09-01
- Primary completion
- 2014-03-01
- Completion
- 2014-03-01
- First posted
- 2014-03-14
- Last updated
- 2014-08-15
- Results posted
- 2014-08-15
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02087774. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.