NCT04194580

Physical Activiy Intervention Programm

Effectiveness of a Physical Activity Intervention on the Overweight and Obesity of Chilean Schoolchildren

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 800 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Universidad Autónoma de Chile · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 4 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a recreational physical activity intervention for reducing the prevalence of overweight/obesity and other cardiovascular risk factors

Detailed description

A greater intensity of the intervention, and a longer weekly duration that extends until the weekend, could improve the efficiency in obesity.

Conditions

• Physical Activity
• Fitness
• Overweight and Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Phisical activity intervention	The prevalence of overweight in chilean children in the among the highest in the world and increasing quickly. The investigators recently evaluated an after-school program of recreational physical activity to control overweight, obesity and other cardiovascular risk factors in primary school children Temuco. This program reduced adiposity and increased the fitness.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-12-03
• Primary completion: 2020-07-20
• Completion: 2020-12-20
• First posted: 2019-12-11
• Last updated: 2019-12-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Chile