Effectiveness of Integrating Physically Active Learning Through Co-teaching in Extremadura: ACTIVA-MENTE Project
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Physically Active Lessons.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Physical Activity, Adolescents, Physical Fitness. Basic parameters: 11 years — 16 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Spain
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
Study based on a school-based physically active learning intervention during the school day on physical activity, fitness, health and education outcomes in adolescents.
Detailed description
Activamente is a quasi-experimental study coordinated by fully qualified researchers in physical activity and sport sciences from the University of Extremadura (UEX), Spain. This study is aimed at students from 1st to 4th year of Secondary Education (11-16 years old), belonging to 10 schools in the Autonomous Community of Extremadura. Each school will have five experimental groups and five control groups. Thus, there will be 50 experimental groups (n=1100) and 50 control groups (n=1100). The intervention will last 8 months, and will consist of one component, which is the inclusion of one physically active class per week.
Before and after the intervention, physical activity and sedentary time will be assessed by activity bracelets, 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) by specific cognition tests. In addition, two intermediate measures of physical activity levels and sedentary time will be measured.
At the end of the intervention the investigators will determine changes in the main outcome variables. Also, the main hypotheses raised will be:
1. Students belonging to the experimental group will improve physical activity and decrease sedentary time during the school day when compared to students belonging to the control group. 2. The students belonging to the experimental group will improve in the markers of physical and psychological health when compared to the students belonging to the control group. 3. Students in the experimental group will improve their academic and cognitive indicators when compared to students in the control group. 4. Students belonging to the experimental group will improve school climate and motivational variables in academic classes when compared to students belonging to the control group.
Interventions
- Behavioral Physically Active Lessons
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 Physical Education teacher) are in charge of designing and delivering the physically active classes.
Primary outcome measures
- Physical activity and sedentary time [Time frame: 8 months]
Secondary outcome measures (12)
- Cardiorespiratory capacity [Time frame: 8 months]
- Musculoskeletal capacity of Upper body [Time frame: 8 months]
- Musculoskeletal capacity of lower body [Time frame: 8 months]
- Body mass index [Time frame: 8 months]
- Health status [Time frame: 8 months]
- School engagement [Time frame: 8 months]
- Learning perception [Time frame: 8 months]
- Academic performance [Time frame: 8 months]
- Novelty [Time frame: 8 months]
- School climate [Time frame: 8 months]
- Sociodemographic characteristics [Time frame: 8 months]
- Teachers' perceptions about the feasibility of the intervention program. [Time frame: 8 months]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Adolescents in 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year of ESO.
- Adolescents with informed consent signed by the family/guardian.
- Schools with at least 210 students enrolled in 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year of ESO.
- Schools belonging to the Autonomous Community of Extremadura.
Exclusion criteria
- Adolescents with any physical disability or health condition that may limit physical activity levels.
- Schools participating in any other physical activity or health promotion program.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- Non-randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
Study locations
Spain · 1 center
- University of Extremadura — Cáceres
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06590103 · 08/2024