Effectiveness of Integrating Physically Active Learning Through Co-teaching in Extremadura: ACTIVA-MENTE Project

NCT ID: NCT06590103

Last Updated: 2024-09-19

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 800 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-09-02
• Study Completion Date: 2025-06-15

Brief Summary

Study based on a school-based physically active learning intervention during the school day on physical activity, fitness, health and education outcomes in adolescents.

Detailed Description

Activamente is a quasi-experimental study coordinated by fully qualified researchers in physical activity and sport sciences from the University of Extremadura (UEX), Spain. This study is aimed at students from 1st to 4th year of Secondary Education (11-16 years old), belonging to 10 schools in the Autonomous Community of Extremadura. Each school will have five experimental groups and five control groups. Thus, there will be 50 experimental groups (n=1100) and 50 control groups (n=1100). The intervention will last 8 months, and will consist of one component, which is the inclusion of one physically active class per week.

Before and after the intervention, physical activity and sedentary time will be assessed by activity bracelets, 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) by specific cognition tests. In addition, two intermediate measures of physical activity levels and sedentary time will be measured.

At the end of the intervention the investigators will determine changes in the main outcome variables. Also, the main hypotheses raised will be:

1. Students belonging to the experimental group will improve physical activity and decrease sedentary time during the school day when compared to students belonging to the control group.

2. The students belonging to the experimental group will improve in the markers of physical and psychological health when compared to the students belonging to the control group.

3. Students in the experimental group will improve their academic and cognitive indicators when compared to students in the control group.

4. Students belonging to the experimental group will improve school climate and motivational variables in academic classes when compared to students belonging to the control group.

Conditions

Physical Activity; Adolescents; Physical Fitness

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Physically Active Lessons.

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

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Physically Active Lessons

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 Physical Education teacher) are in charge of designing and delivering the physically active classes.

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

Physically Active Lessons

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 Physical Education teacher) are in charge of designing and delivering the physically active classes.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Adolescents in 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year of ESO.
• Adolescents with informed consent signed by the family/guardian.
• Schools with at least 210 students enrolled in 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year of ESO.
• Schools belonging to the Autonomous Community of Extremadura.

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

Sponsors

Consejería de Educación, Ciencia y Formación Profesional. Junta de Extremadura

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of Extremadura

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

David Sanchez Oliva

Assistant Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

University of Extremadura

Cáceres, , Spain

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Spain

Central Contacts

David Sánchez-Oliva, PhD

Role: CONTACT

davidsanchez@unex.es

660574338

Facility Contacts

David Sánchez-Oliva, PhD

Role: primary

davidsanchez@unex.es

660574338

Other Identifiers

08/2024

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id