NCT02944318

The Movement Program for an Active and Healthy Lifestyle in Adolescents

The Movement Program for an Active and Healthy Lifestyle in Adolescents and Its Relationship With School Performance

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: EARLY_Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,400 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Kelly Samara da Silva · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

School is a favorable environment for the development of actions aimed at healthy behavioral changes. This project proposes to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention program on aspects of lifestyle, with a focus on physical activity (PA) and reducing sedentary behaviors, and the relationship of these factors with the academic performance of students in the school from Florianopolis, SC, Brazil. This is a randomized controlled intervention study enroling classes of 7th to 9th grade of fundamental education. The intervention program will last for one year (about ten months), with three focuses: training of teachers, educational and environmental changes to behavior change.

Conditions

• Adolescent Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	The Movement Program	The program duration will be one academic year (around ten months) in 2017. The intervention strategies will focus on: (1) teachers' training and activities on health in curriculum; (2) active opportunities in the school environment (facilities and materials for PA practice) and (3) health education (posters and folders to students and parents).

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-03-01
• Primary completion: 2017-12-01
• Completion: 2018-11-01
• First posted: 2016-10-25
• Last updated: 2016-10-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil