School Intervention With Daily Physical Activity and Healthy Food for Students With an Intellectual Disability.

NCT ID: NCT01291238

Last Updated: 2011-02-08

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 145 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2004-03-31
• Study Completion Date: 2010-06-30

Brief Summary

A whole of school intervention with daily physical activity and healthy food for students with intellectual disabilities. The aim is to provide plenty of concrete examples of healthy life style choices and using school personnel and peers as role models. This will presumably result in healthier weight, better fitness and not least in new familiar healthy habits.

Detailed Description

Youth with an intellectual disability are reported more sedentary and more often overweight than non intellectual disability youth. Cardio metabolic risk factors are observed more frequent and at an earlier age among young people with intellectual disability. The school reaches all students and they spend the main part of their day in the school milieu hence examples of healthy lifestyle can be provided there.

This intervention increased physical activity with daily scheduled physical activity. At least one lesson each week was at the gym. Food provided in the school environment was considered from content of sugar and fat and ónly healthy food choices was available at school. This included all school activities, both in the school area and on school activities out in the community. It included home economic lessons as well as the school cafeterias supply and school lunch content.

To increase vegetable intake a special designed plate was used for lunch according the "plate model". In addition, the plate model was one theme during art class.

Conditions

Weight Loss; Food Habits; Mental Retardation

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Healthy lifestyle habits

Increased physical activity and healthy food with decreased sugar and fat content

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Healthier, Smarter, Happier

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Increased physical activity and decreased sugar and fat intake during school hours

Interventions

Healthier, Smarter, Happier

Increased physical activity and decreased sugar and fat intake during school hours

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• mild/moderate intellectual disability
• students at the upper secondary schools for intellectual disability students

Exclusion Criteria

• severe intellectual disability
• obesity related syndromes
• major physical disabilities

• Minimum Eligible Age: 16 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 22 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Region Stockholm

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role: collaborator

City of Stockholm Competence Fund

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Lindeparkens upper secondary school for intellectual disability students

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Mälardalen University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Health Care Sciences Postgraduate School at the Karolinska Institutet

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Karolinska Institutet

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Karolinska Institutet

Principal Investigators

Claude Marcus, Professor

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Karolinska Institutet

Locations

Karolinska Institutet, Department of clinical science, intervention and technology. Division of pediatrics, B62

Stockholm, , Sweden

Countries

Sweden

Other Identifiers

2009/772-32

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id