Nudging Students Towards Healthy Diet and Physical Activity to Prevent Obesity

NCT ID: NCT03128775

Last Updated: 2025-04-06

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

WITHDRAWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2025-07-31

Study Completion Date

2026-12-31

Brief Summary

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The objective of the present study is to estimate the effect of nudging proposals on the students' Body Mass Index, based on changes made in the school environment. This is a factorial randomized community trial, which will be conducted in 18 public schools in the city of Duque de Caxias, RJ.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Obesity

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

PAAPPAS Nudge is a randomized community-based, school-based trial designed to promote healthful choices in a low-income scenario, with will be held in 2018 school-year in 18 municipal public schools in the municipality of Duque de Caxias, metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (http://duquedecaxias.rj.gov.br/portal/). All students from the 5th and 6th grade from the 18 selected schools will be invited to participate to the study.

The study design will be of the factorial type, with 4 group arms:

A) Group 1: control (without any activity); B) Group 2: will receive educational activities in the classroom; C) Group 3: will receive changes in the school environment (nudge strategies); D) Group 4: will receive educational activities and changes in the school environment.
Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Nudge

This group will receive changes in the school environment (nudge strategies). Interventions regarding food consumption were based on nudge strategies to led students to eat more fruits and vegetables. To stimulate physical activity, several sports equipment (basketball hoops, volleyball nets, balls, ropes, shuttlecock and a lot of toys) are available for use in the school sports court.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Nudge

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

School lunchrooms are the central place of modifications regarding food consumption, where the following strategies will be conducted:

1. arrange the fruits served in the school lunch in a prominent position, in containers of bright and contrasting colors to serve them;
2. Create creative names for food served at meals will be created by the students used on displays at canteen tables, posters on the way of the cafeteria and at a menu outside the cafeteria.

To encourage water consumption, footprints that lead to them to water fountains will be painted on the floor. To stimulate physical activity, several sports equipment (basketball hoops, volleyball nets, balls, ropes, shuttlecock and a lot of toys) will be available for use in the school sports court. The courts will be renovated and footsteps painted in order to nudging students to the sports equipment.

Primary prevention

This group will receive educational activities in the classroom. Classroom-based educational activities will be based on an earlier study, called PAPPAS, which was developed in the same city and constituted a school-based intervention with the objective of reducing the consumption of sweetened beverages and biscuits and increase the consumption of fruits, vegetables and beans.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Primary prevention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Classroom-based educational activities based on an earlier study, called PAPPAS, which was developed in the same city and constituted a school-based intervention with the objective of reducing the consumption of sweetened beverages and biscuits and increase the consumption of fruits, vegetables and beans. Activities will be facilitated by trained research assistants. Printed instructions and orientations on the facilitation process will support the assistants' efforts. The activities will require 20 to 30 minutes, and teachers will be encouraged to reiterate the message during their lesson. The goal is to promote ten one-hour sessions of activity for each class.

Primary prevention + nudge

This group will receive educational activities and in the classroomchanges in the school environment (nudge).

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Primary prevention + nudge

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

This group will receive both primary prevention and nudge activities. At school lunchrooms, the fruits served in the school lunch will be put in a prominent position, in containers of bright and contrasting colors to serve them; create creative names for food served at meals will be created by the studentes, footprints that lead to them to water fountains will be painted on the floor. Several sports equipment (basketball hoops, volleyball nets, balls, ropes, shuttlecock and a lot of toys) will be available for use in the schools sport court. Also, classroom-based educational activities based on an earlier study, called PAPPAS, will be held. The activities will require 20 to 30 minutes, and teachers will be encouraged to reiterate the message during their lesson. The goal is to promote ten one-hour sessions of activity for each class.

Control

without any activity

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Nudge

School lunchrooms are the central place of modifications regarding food consumption, where the following strategies will be conducted:

1. arrange the fruits served in the school lunch in a prominent position, in containers of bright and contrasting colors to serve them;
2. Create creative names for food served at meals will be created by the students used on displays at canteen tables, posters on the way of the cafeteria and at a menu outside the cafeteria.

To encourage water consumption, footprints that lead to them to water fountains will be painted on the floor. To stimulate physical activity, several sports equipment (basketball hoops, volleyball nets, balls, ropes, shuttlecock and a lot of toys) will be available for use in the school sports court. The courts will be renovated and footsteps painted in order to nudging students to the sports equipment.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Primary prevention

Classroom-based educational activities based on an earlier study, called PAPPAS, which was developed in the same city and constituted a school-based intervention with the objective of reducing the consumption of sweetened beverages and biscuits and increase the consumption of fruits, vegetables and beans. Activities will be facilitated by trained research assistants. Printed instructions and orientations on the facilitation process will support the assistants' efforts. The activities will require 20 to 30 minutes, and teachers will be encouraged to reiterate the message during their lesson. The goal is to promote ten one-hour sessions of activity for each class.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Primary prevention + nudge

This group will receive both primary prevention and nudge activities. At school lunchrooms, the fruits served in the school lunch will be put in a prominent position, in containers of bright and contrasting colors to serve them; create creative names for food served at meals will be created by the studentes, footprints that lead to them to water fountains will be painted on the floor. Several sports equipment (basketball hoops, volleyball nets, balls, ropes, shuttlecock and a lot of toys) will be available for use in the schools sport court. Also, classroom-based educational activities based on an earlier study, called PAPPAS, will be held. The activities will require 20 to 30 minutes, and teachers will be encouraged to reiterate the message during their lesson. The goal is to promote ten one-hour sessions of activity for each class.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

5th and 6th grades students consent form signed by parents/tutors

Exclusion Criteria

pregnant girls
Minimum Eligible Age

9 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

15 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Oswaldo Cruz Foundation

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Copenhagen

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Rio de Janeiro State University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Rosely Sichieri

Full professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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18 Schools of Metropolitan Area

Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Site Status

Countries

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Brazil

Other Identifiers

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Nudgepaappas

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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