Effectiveness of a Multicomponent Intervention to Promote Physical Activity Levels During the School Day (MOVESCHOOL)

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

900 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-09-01

Study Completion Date

2026-08-31

Brief Summary

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Study based a multicomponent school-based intervention during the school-day (i.e., Physically active learning, active breaks, and active recess) on Physical Activity, health, educational, and cognition outcomes in adolescents.

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Detailed Description

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MOVESCHOOLS is a quasi-experimental study coordinated by fully qualified researchers in physical activity and sport sciences from two universities \[University of Cadiz (UCA) and University of Extremadura (UEX), Spain\]. This study is aimed at year 1 to year 3 from Secondary Education students (11-16 years old), belonging to 10 schools in Spain (5 schools in Cadiz and 5 schools in Caceres). The schools will be assigned to a control group (n = 5 schools and 400 students) and an intervention group (n = 5 schools and 400 students). The intervention will last 6 months, and will consist of three components:

1. Inclusion of a physically active classes per week.
2. Development of two daily active breaks of 5 minutes duration.
3. Implementation of daily active recesses.

Before and after the intervention, Physical Activity and sedentary time will be assessed by accelerometry, 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 and mathematical fluency) by specific cognition tests. In weeks 8 and 16, Physical Activity and sedentary time will also be evaluated as intermediate measures.

At the end of the intervention the researchers will determine the changes of the main outcome variables. Likewise, the main hypotheses raised will be:

1. Students belonging to the experimental group will improve physical activity and will decrease sedentary time during the school-day when comparing to the students belonging to the control group.
2. Students belonging to the experimental group will result in improved in physical and psychological health markers when comparing to the students belonging to the control group.
3. Students belonging to the experimental group will result in improved academic indicators and cognitive markers when comparing to the students belonging to the control group.
4. Students belonging to the experimental group will improve school climate and motivational variables in academic classes compared to students belonging to the control group.

Conditions

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Physical Activity Adolescents Physical Fitness Cognition

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Multicomponent school-based intervention

The multicomponent intervention will be composed of:

Physically Active Learning: consists of incorporating physical activity (usually of moderate-vigorous intensity) into the educational content taught in non-physical education academic classes.

Active breaks: consists of short breaks during non-physical education academic classes that include moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity.

Active Recess: consists of promoting PA during school breaks. To this end, three strategies will be developed: i) modification of the environment; ii) loose equipment; iii) structured recess. The modification of the environment will consist of providing students with a greater number of spaces for them to be active during recess. Access to sports equipment consists of providing sports equipment to encourage PA practice during recess. Structured recess includes the organization of sports competitions and teacher-led activities.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Multicomponent school-based intervention.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

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 research team) are in charge of the physically active classes.

Active break: the intervention consists of 2 active pauses per day. The development of each pause is carried out through a specific digital platform in which students follow the instructions of an avatar, who is in charge of guiding the realization of the active break. Each active break takes a total of 4 minutes, in which two sets of 20 seconds of work and 10 seconds of rest of four different exercises are performed.

Active break: The intervention consists of a daily active break, every school day of the week. The design and supervision of each active break will be carried out by the support technician and the teaching staff based on the students' tastes.

Control Group

The control group will receive the usual academic classes without any methodological modification during the intervention period.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Multicomponent school-based intervention.

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 research team) are in charge of the physically active classes.

Active break: the intervention consists of 2 active pauses per day. The development of each pause is carried out through a specific digital platform in which students follow the instructions of an avatar, who is in charge of guiding the realization of the active break. Each active break takes a total of 4 minutes, in which two sets of 20 seconds of work and 10 seconds of rest of four different exercises are performed.

Active break: The intervention consists of a daily active break, every school day of the week. The design and supervision of each active break will be carried out by the support technician and the teaching staff based on the students' tastes.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Adolescents in 1st, 2nd and 3rd year of ESO.
* Adolescents with informed consent signed by the family/guardian.
* Schools with at least 80 students enrolled in 1st, 2nd and 3rd ESO.
* Schools belonging to the regions of Cáceres and Cádiz.

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.

Minimum Eligible Age

11 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

16 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes