NCT07227935

Sustaining Quality Physical Education for Healthy Kids

• Status: Enrolling By Invitation
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 970 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Michigan · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 14 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to examine the effects of the technology-enhanced quality physical education (Smart-QPE) lessons on physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness, social emotional learning (SEL) skills, and mental well-being in school students.

Detailed description

Students in 4th-7th grades from 17 elementary and middle schools in Michigan are invited to participate in the study. Students will be assessed with cardiorespiratory fitness, social emotional learning skills, physical activity, and mental well-being at a baseline and the post-intervention tests before and after the Smart-QPE intervention. The Smart-QPE intervention include that PE teachers integrate the Heart Zone Moves System into their teaching quality physical education lesson in October and November, 2025.

Conditions

• Smart-Quality Physical Education

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Smart-QPE	During the Smart-QPE intervention spanning in October - November, 2025, the physical education teacher integrate the Heart Zone Moves System into teaching quality physical education lessons; students wear the heart rate monitor on his/her forearm to self-monitor his/her real time engagement in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) to maximize students MVPA time.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-09-08
• Primary completion: 2025-12-19
• Completion: 2026-08-01
• First posted: 2025-11-13
• Last updated: 2026-02-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States