Protocol for a Natural-Based Intervention to Promote Quality of Life and Healthy Habits on Children and Adolescents.

NCT ID: NCT07080541

Last Updated: 2025-07-23

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 728 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-04-28
• Study Completion Date: 2025-11-30

Brief Summary

In current society, physical activity practices show a decreasing trend, together with a low perception of life quality. In addition, urban overcrowding has led to disconnection from the natural environment, causing the benefits that this context offers to be lost, especially for children and adolescents. Physical literacy is an approach to physical activity that encompasses more than just individual physical skills. It emphasises the importance of performing physical activity on a regular basis as part of daily life, encompassing bodily expression and understanding, as well as self-confidence and motivation, making it a factor that contributes to quality of life. Although research shows a correlation between physical literacy and life satisfaction, there is no research on other variables, such as the impact of green spaces in this correlation. This study aimed to present the rationale and methods of a randomized controlled trial in green spaces for children and adolescents aged 8 to 18 to evaluate the efficacy of a nature-based intervention designed to promote healthy habits through physical literacy and quality of life through life satisfaction. The statistical techniques applied will include a comprehensive method encompassing sociodemographic information, physical activity levels, perceptions of physical literacy, and life satisfaction. The camp shifts were randomly distributed, with half in the control group and the other half in the experimental group . Two measures of physical literacy and life satisfaction were measured: one at the beginning of the camp and one on the day of completion. The intervention included 24 sessions of adventure activities carried out in a natural environment, and the values obtained for both variables were collected using two questionnaires validated for these age groups. This intervention is expected to improve levels of physical literacy and perceived life satisfaction by providing valuable

Conditions

Life Quality; Physical Activities; Life Style, Healthy; Life Style Modification

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Physical literacy information

Participants in the technology experimental group received physical literacy and life satisfaction information prior to the adventure activities via social media.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Physical literacy and life satisfaction

Intervention Type: OTHER

Participants in the technology experimental group will engage in physical activity in nature while being exposed to information pills on physical literacy and the importance of physical activity in health to improve quality of life and life satisfaction via social media

Analogic information

Participants in the analogic experimental group received physical literacy and life satisfaction information prior to the adventure activities using paper sheets.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Analogic information

Intervention Type: OTHER

Participants in the analogic experimental group will engage in physical activity in nature while being exposed to information pills on physical literacy and the importance of physical activity in health to improve quality of life and life satisfaction via paper sheets.

Participants physical activity intervention (no information)

Participants in the analogic experimental group received physical literacy and life satisfaction information prior to the adventure activities using paper sheets.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Physical literacy and life satisfaction

Participants in the technology experimental group will engage in physical activity in nature while being exposed to information pills on physical literacy and the importance of physical activity in health to improve quality of life and life satisfaction via social media

Intervention Type: OTHER

Analogic information

Participants in the analogic experimental group will engage in physical activity in nature while being exposed to information pills on physical literacy and the importance of physical activity in health to improve quality of life and life satisfaction via paper sheets.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Parental consent
• Participation on summer camps

Exclusion Criteria

• Older than 18 years
• Not having parental consent.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 8 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Universidad de Extremadura

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Noelia Mayordomo

PhD Student/Substitute professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Mayordomo-Pinilla, PhD Student

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Extremadura

Locations

Sports Science Faculty

Cáceres, Cáceres, Spain

Countries

Spain

Other Identifiers

139//2024

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id