NCT03579810

Impact of a Pedagogical Intervention on Children Cardiovascular Risk Factors

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 870 (actual)
• Sponsor: Fundación Cardioinfantil Instituto de Cardiología · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 4 Years – 8 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In Bogotá, Colombia, the Fundación Cadioinfantil performed a randomized and controlled community trial, to evaluate the impact of a pedagogical intervention (PI) on cardiovascular health towards an active lifestyle and healthy eating in 9 schools of the city, including children from kindergarten to second grade of elementary school, their parents and teachers.

Detailed description

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of mortality worldwide and Colombia is not an exception. Epidemiological studies have demonstrated that CVD risk factors are identifiable in childhood and they are predictor of CDV risk in adulthood. Worldwide, CDV primary prevention that begins in childhood is identified as a strategy that decreases the burden of this disease. Programs developed in educational communities (EC), that include in their planning and implementation students, teachers and parents, with training to food personnel, are the most effective strategies to create healthy school environments and reduce the burden of chronic diseases. However recent studies that evaluate physical activity through accelerometers have not shown effectiveness. In 2009, the Si! program and Fundación CardioInfantil performed a randomized and controlled community trial in facilities of the Colombian Family welfare Institute, ICBF, from Usaquen locality in Bogotá, finding that a pedagogical intervention (PI) in preschool children, their parents and teachers is effective in improving knowledge, attitudes and habits towards an active lifestyle and healthy diet. The construction of the proposed intervention is based on the best available evidence about programs, policies and practices that positively impact in healthy eating and physical activity habits in EC. The objectives of this project are to evaluate changes in healthy foods consumption and energy expenditure in children from kindergarten to second grade of elementary school that receives pedagogical intervention (PI) adapted to its context, compared to another EC that develops its habitual curriculum. In addition, this study evaluates changes on cardiovascular risk factors in children. Also, it evaluates changes in healthy foods consumption in their parents and teachers.

Conditions

• Cardiovascular Health

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Investigational	The educational intervention helped to increase the knowledge of attitudes, and habits of healthy lifestyle in children, parents and teachers and it was based on health promotion models and social cognitive theory, to be articulated with the Institutional Educational Project through the pedagogical component that integrates three areas, physical activity, healthy eating, and the knowledge of the body and the heart with the dynamics of the educative community. The program covered self-care of the body and heart, healthy diet, and physical activity
OTHER	Control	The control group did not receive an educational intervention in areas of physical activity, healthy eating, and the knowledge of the body and the heart. Instead, children received the standard curriculum in health and physical activity of the national Ministry of Education.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-02-01
• Primary completion: 2017-12-01
• Completion: 2017-12-01
• First posted: 2018-07-09
• Last updated: 2018-07-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Colombia