NCT04307966

Effectiveness of a Pre-adolescent Inter-generational Intervention to Address HIV and Obesity

Addressing the Double Burden of Diseases Through a Pre-adolescent Transdisciplinary Intervention for Inter-generational Outcomes

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 852 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Witwatersrand, South Africa · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 9 Years – 14 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

The study evaluates an intervention, The CIrCLE of Life Initiative, which was developed to address HIV and obesity prevention. We evaluated whether the combined HIV and obesity intervention increased knowledge, enhanced skills, and/or promoted healthy behaviour among pre-adolescent students (9-12 years old) and their parents.

Detailed description

The CIrCLE of Life Initiative had both a school and home component, each comprising a learning curriculum, environmental support, and activity-based constituents that aimed to increase student knowledge and skills, and to engage parents. Trained educators delivered lessons about HIV and obesity to all Grade 6 students at 5 government-run schools. The classroom curriculum for students required delivery of a five-hour face-to-face intervention delivered weekly through 10 30-minute lessons. Students were asked to communicate their learnings to their parents at home. Parents were requested to read through the lesson in a workbook and to sign acknowledgement that they had read the content. The workbook contained shared student-parent homework activities that took approximately 30 minutes per week.

Conditions

• Hiv
• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	The CIrCLE of Life Initiative	HIV and obesity prevention programme delivered directly to Grade 6 preadolescents and indirectly to their parents.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-05-01
• Primary completion: 2018-06-30
• Completion: 2018-06-30
• First posted: 2020-03-13
• Last updated: 2020-03-13

Locations

5 sites across 1 country: South Africa