NCT06254638

Effectiveness of a Multicomponent Intervention to Promote Physical Activity Levels During the School Day (MOVESCHOOL)

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 900 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Extremadura · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 11 Years – 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Study based a multicomponent school-based intervention during the school-day (i.e., Physically active learning, active breaks, and active recess) on Physical Activity, health, educational, and cognition outcomes in adolescents.

Detailed description

MOVESCHOOLS is a quasi-experimental study coordinated by fully qualified researchers in physical activity and sport sciences from two universities \[University of Cadiz (UCA) and University of Extremadura (UEX), Spain\]. This study is aimed at year 1 to year 3 from Secondary Education students (11-16 years old), belonging to 10 schools in Spain (5 schools in Cadiz and 5 schools in Caceres). The schools will be assigned to a control group (n = 5 schools and 400 students) and an intervention group (n = 5 schools and 400 students). The intervention will last 6 months, and will consist of three components: 1. Inclusion of a physically active classes per week. 2. Development of two daily active breaks of 5 minutes duration. 3. Implementation of daily active recesses. Before and after the intervention, Physical Activity and sedentary time will be assessed by accelerometry, health-related fitness levels by field tests, body composition parameters by anthropometry, academic performance by school grades, positive health (quality of life and self-perception of health) by questionnaire, and cognitive parameters (executive functions and mathematical fluency) by specific cognition tests. In weeks 8 and 16, Physical Activity and sedentary time will also be evaluated as intermediate measures. At the end of the intervention the researchers will determine the changes of the main outcome variables. Likewise, the main hypotheses raised will be: 1. Students belonging to the experimental group will improve physical activity and will decrease sedentary time during the school-day when comparing to the students belonging to the control group. 2. Students belonging to the experimental group will result in improved in physical and psychological health markers when comparing to the students belonging to the control group. 3. Students belonging to the experimental group will result in improved academic indicators and cognitive markers when comparing to the students belonging to the control group. 4. Students belonging to the experimental group will improve school climate and motivational variables in academic classes compared to students belonging to the control group.

Conditions

• Physical Activity
• Adolescents
• Physical Fitness
• Cognition

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Multicomponent school-based intervention.	Physically active learning: this type of intervention is carried out once a week for 1 hour outside the classroom. The teachers of the corresponding subject (with the support of the research team) are in charge of the physically active classes. Active break: the intervention consists of 2 active pauses per day. The development of each pause is carried out through a specific digital platform in which students follow the instructions of an avatar, who is in charge of guiding the realization of the active break. Each active break takes a total of 4 minutes, in which two sets of 20 seconds of work and 10 seconds of rest of four different exercises are performed. Active break: The intervention consists of a daily active break, every school day of the week. The design and supervision of each active break will be carried out by the support technician and the teaching staff based on the students' tastes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-09-01
• Primary completion: 2026-08-31
• Completion: 2026-08-31
• First posted: 2024-02-12
• Last updated: 2024-09-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain