NCT04431115

Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Fitness Profile of Primary School Children in Lagos, Nigeria.

Levels, Patterns and Correlates of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Fitness Profile of Primary School Children in Lagos, Nigeria; Development of a Physical Activity Guideline.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1,038 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of KwaZulu · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This research study intends to use a mixed method approach(both qualitative and quantitative) to describe and analyse the levels, patterns, and correlates of physical activity((PA), sedentary behaviour(SB), and physical fitness(PF) profiles of primary school children in Lagos state, Nigeria. The study is in four phases.

Detailed description

Phase1 is a scoping review of literature of the level of compliance of all the countries in sub-saharan Africa to the Global observatory on physical activity(GOPA) recommendation on the minimum level of daily physical activity to reduce incidence of non communicable chronic diseases e.g. hypertension, diabetes, obesity etc. Phase2 is a concurrent mixed method which will explore parents and other stakeholders awareness, understanding and perspectives on PA,SB, and PF among primary school children in Lagos, Nigeria. Phase 3 is a cross sectional study which will investigate levels, patterns and correlates among physical activity, sedentary behaviour and physical fitness profile of primary school children in Lagos, Nigeria. Phase 4 is development of physical activity guideline for primary school children in Lagos, Nigeria.

Conditions

• Physical Activity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Interviews	Interviews for stakeholders

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-04-20
• Primary completion: 2021-03-30
• Completion: 2021-03-30
• First posted: 2020-06-16
• Last updated: 2021-04-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Nigeria