NCT07100535

Education and Literacy for an Active Life (Educação e Literacia Para Uma Vida Ativa)

Education and Literacy for an Active Life

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 128 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Lusofona University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 9 Years – 13 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Health literacy is essential for children to develop healthy behaviors that persist into adulthood. It enables the access, understanding, evaluation, and application of health-related information, being a key component of health education. This study was designed as a randomized controlled study, aiming to analyze the effectiveness and feasibility of a school intervention to improve health literacy of 5th and 6th grade students on nutrition, physical activity, sleep, and mental health. Intervention will be delivered in two phases. Phase 1 will involve a pilot intervention comprising four sessions conducted over a three-month period in two schools representing distinct socioeconomic contexts. Phase 2 will scale the intervention nationally, expanding to include additional schools across Portugal. This phase will include eight sessions conducted over one entire school-year (September-June), and will integrate adjustments based on the limitations and insights identified during the pilot study. Phase 2 will additionally include 20-month follow-up assessments to be performed at the end of the following school-year (20-month).

Conditions

• Health Literacy
• Physical Activity
• Nutrition
• Sedentary Behaviors
• Sleep
• Mental Health

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Education and Literacy for an Active Life	This study will assess the effectiveness of a school-based health literacy intervention on the four dimensions of health literacy (i.e., access, understanding, evaluation, and application) on diet, sedentary behaviour, physical activity, sleep, and mental health in 5th and 6th graders (aged 9-12), and explored its implementation feasibility.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-02-03
• Primary completion: 2028-06-01
• Completion: 2029-05-01
• First posted: 2025-08-03
• Last updated: 2025-08-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Portugal