NCT02104973

Obesity Prevention in Schoolchildren

Design and Evaluation of a Strategy to Prevent Overweight and Obesity in Schoolchildren in Mexico City

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 400 (actual)
• Sponsor: Coordinación de Investigación en Salud, Mexico · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to design, implement and evaluate an intervention oriented to change alimentary practices and patterns of physical activity of children through educative activities with parents, teachers and children in school of Mexico city.

Detailed description

In Mexico, obesity is becoming the most public health problem. The increase in body mass is associated with the changes in the alimentary environment, resources for physical activity in a context of poor health literacy of the population and low efficacy of the health system. Schools, as social settings, are a opportunity for obesity prevention. The study includes three phases: 1) evaluation of training, in which the psychological context in which obesity is generated is evaluated. The evaluation will be performed by collection of qualitative and quantitative information, 2) design a strategy from the information obtained. The intervention will include working sessions with teachers, parents and children, establishment of schools in window counseling in nutrition and physical activity and the secretion of a website to not communicate with the public and Provide information, 3) evaluation of the strategy in a community trial with two groups of schools, one intervention and one control.

Conditions

• Overweight
• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Lifestyle counseling	We will intent to modify the diet of the children. The intervention is designed to promote the increase the intake of fruits and vegetables and to reduce the high density foods consumption.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-01-01
• Primary completion: 2012-12-01
• Completion: 2015-02-01
• First posted: 2014-04-07
• Last updated: 2014-04-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Mexico