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Conditions
Brief summary
The Promoting Health and Access to Sport Equipment (PHASE) is a school-based family centred health education program focused on physical activity. The PHASE has two main goals: (1) to promote health-enhancing physical activity (HEPA) and health education in the local community families with primary school children; and (2) to facilitate, energise and boost the use of the schools’ facilities by the community. For this purpose, in 5 different countries (Portugal, Spain, Poland, Latvia and Czech), including a sample of 12 primary schools, 6 acting as a control group and 6 as an experimental group, the school spaces will be opened to both children and families. In the control group, the spaces will remain free for their use and in the experimental group, physical activity sessions will be given by a qualified professional. In the end, we intend to verify if the access to the sports spaces is an attractive factor for the community to use and thus promote HEPA, and verify the involvement of parents and community in the school and their relationship with the children.
Interventions
The Promoting Health and Access to Sport Equipment (PHASE) is a school-based family centred health education program focused on physical activity.
To promote physical activity within the local community families and primary school children a physically active game-based approach will be used, including formal and informal team games. The following contents will be explored in the various sessions of the PHASE intervention: (a) line ball games; (b) dodgeball; (c) throwball; (d) adapted basketball
The Promoting Health and Access to Sport Equipment (PHASE) is a school-based family centred health education program focused on physical activity. To promote physical activity within the local community families and primary school children a physically active game-based approach will be used, including formal and informal team games. The following contents will be explored in the various sessions of the PHASE intervention: (a) line ball games; (b) dodgeball; (c) throwball; (d) adapted basketball; (e) tag rugby; (f) free play. The sessions will all have a similar structure: 10 minutes warm up, 20 minutes informal team games and rule learning, 25 minutes formal team game and 5 minutes relaxation. The PHASE intervention will be evaluated using a controlled trial, selecting two primary schools from the same area in each Portuguese (n=4), Spanish (n=2), Polish (n=2), Latvian (n=2) and Czech (n=2) partner. PHASE will be implemented in two phases: (I) controlled intervention of the health education program; (II) open the health education program to the control group, using an experimental design approach. In the intervention group the program will last 20 weeks, with two 60-minutes sessions per week. The sessions will take place inside the school using the school sports facilities up to a total of 50 participants (25 parents and 25 children). A focus group with parents and other one with children were previously conducted to evaluate the feasibility and the receptiveness for the implementation of the project, namely the involvement of parents in the school to practice physical activity with children and their availability for the sessions. Based on the focus groups, one session will occur during the week in the afternoon after school. Ideally, the other will take place during the weekend in the morning or afternoon. Sessions will be held on non-consecutive days and at least two days (e.g., one session on Wednesday and the other on Saturday). Sessions will be performed by qualified professionals in the field of Physical Activity/Physical Education with, at least, a Bachelor’s level degree. To assess the adherence to the program, participation will be registered in each session.
Sponsors
University of Lisbon
Study design
Allocation
Non-randomised trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
6 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Children aged 6 to 10 attending schools where the PHASE intervention will be developed. Parents, relatives (e.g. grandparents, uncles, older brothers) or responsible persons of the children participating in PHASE. Availability to participate in the sessions.
Exclusion criteria
Having medical impediment for practising physical activity or sports activities.
Outcome results
None listed