NCT06671964

The Impact of School-Based Intervention for 9-13-year-old School Children with Overweight and Obesity

The Impact of School-Based Intervention for 9-13-year-old School Children with Overweight and Obesity: Nutrition Knowledge, Attitudes, Self-Efficacy, Fruit and Vegetable Intake, and Anthropometry

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 403 (actual)
• Sponsor: United Arab Emirates University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 9 Years – 13 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Childhood obesity is a major issue for the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Interventions modifying people's nutritional behavior and changing their dietary habits can potentially address this problem. This study assessed the effectiveness of the 6-month school-based nutritional educational intervention on fruit and vegetable intake, nutrition knowledge, anthropometric measures, and practice, attitude, and self-efficacy measures.

Detailed description

The problem of childhood obesity is a critical issue for the UAE. Findings of recent studies illustrate that nutritional interventions seeking to modify people's nutritional behavior and change their dietary habits have the potential to address this problem. This article reports the results of the study that was dedicated to the influence of the school-based nutritional educational intervention on fruit and vegetable intake, anthropometric measures, practice, attitude, self-efficacy, and knowledge scores of schoolchildren. The intervention was carried out among 9-13-year-old schoolchildren at public schools from Dubai and Sharjah (n=403). The sample included three groups, including the control group (n=114), Intervention Group 1 (n=148), and Intervention Group 2 (n=141). The control group was exposed to a conventional curriculum on healthy nutrition. Group 1 participated in the intervention involving children, and Group 2 participated in the intervention involving students, peers, and parents.

Conditions

• Overweight Children
• Obese Children and Adolescents

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Anthropometric measurements	Anthropometric measurements of the students, including weight, height, muscle mass, fat quantity, and waist circumference, were measured. The WHO BMI charts were utilized for classification. Stratified Random selection
OTHER	Questionnaire	The collection of data was performed using the "Atlas questionnaire" (Al-Hazzaa et al., 2011) and "nutrition knowledge and healthy lifestyle behavior" questionnaire (Kalender et al., 2011) with additional questions related to self-efficacy and dietary practices adapted from the literature (Becher, 2009; Voss et al., 2017; Kowalski et al., 2004). Stratified Random selection
OTHER	Educational sessions	The topics that covered included a healthy eating lifestyle, energy balance, food portion control, healthy snacking, the importance of physical activity and healthy eating, dietary practices, and nutrition-related self-efficacy.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-08-27
• Primary completion: 2022-03-19
• Completion: 2023-02-28
• First posted: 2024-11-04
• Last updated: 2024-11-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Arab Emirates