Respiratory health (no specific disease) Respiratory
Conditions
Interventions
The intervention will be administered to all participating children and it will consist of two components:
1) An education session(s) focused on age-appropriate lung health promotion and respiratory
Sponsors
Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
6 Years to 11 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Children aged 6–11 years enrolled in primary schools across Poland, Portugal, and Hungary.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Children's whose parents did not sign the informed consent or who are not willing to participate in the spirometry testing.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Feasibility of the intervention measured using data collected on the number of recruited schools and families; the number of children attending the educational session and doing the spirometry test; the number of acceptable spirometry tests performed; and the degree of satisfaction with the educational session at baseline;Prevalence of impaired lung function in children, defined as an FEV1 below the Lower Limit of Normal (LLN) measured using spirometry at baseline;Knowlege of respiratory health and children and teachers adopting behavioural changes measured using questionnaires at 6-month follow-up | — |
Countries
Hungary, Poland, Portugal
Contacts
Public ContactLaura;Pippa Delgado-Ortiz;Powell
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Outcome results
None listed