Building Long-term Academic Success Through Ongoing Fun Fitness Program

NCT ID: NCT04113707

Last Updated: 2025-07-23

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: WITHDRAWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2019-10-01
• Study Completion Date: 2024-09-26

Brief Summary

The purpose of the research study is to investigate if daily motor activities, including fitness activities, gross motor skills, fine motor skills, and motor coordination activities result in physiological, cognitive, and behavioral benefits to children at Odyssey Academy. The study will compare students' performance after intervention by comparing an intervention period to a standard care period, and comparing intervention students to students engaged in standard school activities in the area of academic performance.

Detailed Description

The objective of this study is to track if daily participation in motor lab activities for school age children improves their academic performance. Academic performance is associated with motor skills, coordination, and executive function. Our objectives are to determine if daily participation in motor lab activities changes these skills, to better understand these relationships, track outcomes of children participating in motor lab intervention compared to non-intervention and children receiving standard level of care in the school, and to be able to follow the intervention students over time.

The specific aims of the study are:

1. To investigate whether gross motor skills, fine motor skills, and physical fitness, predict executive function skills.

2. To determine the relationship between these variables and academic performance.

3. To examine the relationship between participation in motor lab activities and measures of change in fitness, gross motor skills, fine motor skills, executive function, and academic performance.

4. To evaluate if participation in daily motor lab activities predicts fitness level, gross motor skills, fine motor skills, executive function, and academic success at the end of the school year and in the next school year.

Conditions

Reading Disorder

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Motor Lab

Group A will receive 20 minutes of motor lab intervention daily.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Motor lab activity

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

fitness, gross motor, fine motor, and motor coordination activities

Standard of Care

Group B will receive standard of care which will be 20 minutes of reading per day.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Motor lab activity

fitness, gross motor, fine motor, and motor coordination activities

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• students in grades kindergarten through fourth grade,
• students below grade level in reading
• in Odyssey Academy's reading program

Exclusion Criteria

• students that are not part of the specialized reading program at Odyssey Academy
• are unwilling to participate in the motor lab intervention
• lack conversational ability in the use of the English language.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 5 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 13 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Other Identifiers

19-0180

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id