Attention Capacity and Before-school Physical Activity Intervention Program

NCT ID: NCT03893149

Last Updated: 2019-03-28

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 150 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2018-03-03
• Study Completion Date: 2019-03-05

Brief Summary

Despite the evidence and the potential of physical activity related to cognition and academic performance in children, the effects of a before-school physical activity program on these parameters remains unknown.

Detailed Description

Despite public health concerns and the extensively documented health benefits of physical activity, a large proportion of Chilean children do not meet the physical activity recommendations (Aguilar-Farias et al., 2018). Since most children spend a majority of their waking hours at school, this environment is appropriate for the implementation of preventive interventions, particularly those that include activities promoting physical activity (Naylor & McKay, 2009). With the absence of opportunities for physical activity during the school day, before-school programs have become a popular option to help children increasing their physical activity levels (Stylianou, van der Mars, et al., 2016). Although several recent studies support a positive effect of before school-based physical activity on health (Westcott, Puhala, Colligan, Loud, & Cobbett, 2015), less literature has evaluate the cognitive outcomes (Stylianou, Kulinna, et al., 2016) such as attention capacity.

Conditions

Physical Activity; Behavior; Child Behavior; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

Active-Start intervention

Supervised exercise training

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Active-Start intervention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Supervised exercise training. The intervention is a physical activity intervention that consist of 5 times per week before starting the first school-class (8:00-8:30 a.m.), 5 times per week. Each session was previously planned and described in a manual dedicated to the study. These sessions were designed by the research team and delivered by a graduate in Sport The intervention program included sports games adapted to the age of the participants, playground games, dance and other recreational activities. The intensity of the main part of the sessions was moderate-to-vigorous according to a previous study and this intensity was confirmed by accelerometry. Also, different activities favoring social interactions were designed to facilitate the interactions between the participants at the end of the sessions (cold-down).

No Intervention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

No-exercise

Control group

No-exercise

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Active-Start intervention

Supervised exercise training. The intervention is a physical activity intervention that consist of 5 times per week before starting the first school-class (8:00-8:30 a.m.), 5 times per week. Each session was previously planned and described in a manual dedicated to the study. These sessions were designed by the research team and delivered by a graduate in Sport The intervention program included sports games adapted to the age of the participants, playground games, dance and other recreational activities. The intensity of the main part of the sessions was moderate-to-vigorous according to a previous study and this intensity was confirmed by accelerometry. Also, different activities favoring social interactions were designed to facilitate the interactions between the participants at the end of the sessions (cold-down).

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

No Intervention

No-exercise

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• All students in fourth grade (aged 8-10 years)
• Children's parents/caregivers will give their written consent to the children's participation.
• Collaboration in the family to respond to questionnaires

Exclusion Criteria

• Children with some physical pathology or medical contraindication to perform physical exercise
• Diagnosed with learning disabilities or mental disorders

• Minimum Eligible Age: 8 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 10 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Universidad Pública de Navarra

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Universidad Santo Tomas

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Antonio García-Hermoso, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Locations

Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Santiago, , Chile

Countries

Chile

Provided Documents

Document Type: Study Protocol

View Document

Other Identifiers

N°: 938 USACH

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id