Self-regulation in Health
Conditions
Brief summary
The Health and Education Ministries of Brazil launched the Health in School Program - PSE - in 2007. The purpose of the PSE is twofold: articulate the actions of the education and health systems to identify risk factors and prevent them; and promote the education for health in the public elementary school system. In the health field, the self-regulation (SR) construct can contribute to the understanding of life habits which can affect the improvement of individuals' health. This study aims to present a school-based program, Promotion of Self-Regulation in Health (SRH), which adds the self-regulation approach to the topics of healthy eating and oral health of the PSE for elementary school. A study of a randomized clinical trial enrolling the 5th grade students of public elementary schools from the south of Brazil is presented. The study has two phases. In Phase 1, teachers and health professionals will participate in a training program on SRH, and in Phase 2, they will conduct an intervention in class: Promotion of SRH. The participants were randomly assigned into three groups: Condition I followed the PSE program, Condition II group followed the PSE and the SRH program, and the control group did not enroll in either of the health promotion programs. For the evaluation of the study, the following measures and instruments were applied: Body Mass Index (BMI), Simplified Oral Hygiene Index (OHI-S), Previous Day Food Questionnaire (PFDQ), Declarative Knowledge for Health Instrument, Food Preference Instrument, Student´s Attitudes and Perceptions and Parents Perceptions and Influences on the Health Instrument, Food Availability and Oral Health Instrument, Self-Regulation for Health Scale, Self-Efficacy for Health Scale. Students in the three groups will be assessed five times throughout the year: before the beginning of the intervention program, three months into intervention, six months into intervention, at the end of the intervention, and, finally, six months post intervention to check for the impact of the program on children health.
Interventions
OTHERProgram Self-regulation in health
The intervention program with children will be run by teachers and health professionals (Condition Group II) in 50-minute biweekly sessions which will take place in class in school year. During these sessions, the children will complete the following tasks: the reading of the chapters of Yellow Trials and Tribulations (one chapter per week) and the discussions and activities related to the topics of healthy eating and oral health.
Sponsors
Federal University of Health Science of Porto Alegre
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Intervention model description
The participants were randomly assigned into three groups: Condition I followed the health school program (PSE), Condition II group followed the PSE and the Self-regulation Health - SRH program, and the control group did not enroll in either of the health promotion programs
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
9 Years to 13 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Teachers must teach a 5th grade class in a public elementary school * Health professionals must be working in a primary care unit; * Students must be enrolled in the 5th grade in a public elementary school; * Parents/guardians: must be responsible for a child enrolled in a 5th grade class in a public elementary school * All participants must be volunteers and must sign the Free and Informed Consent Term or Term of Assent (parents / guardians and students);
Exclusion criteria
Potential participants who do not meet all the inclusion criteria, including 5th grade students with special educational needs that limit their cognitive autonomy, will be excluded from the study
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Self-regulation skills for healthy eating and oral health | 3 years | Development of self-regulatory competencies for healthier eating and oral health in childhood. These variables wiil be evaluated through Self-Regulation for Health Scale. |
| Self-efficacy perception for healthy eating and oral health | 3 years | Develop increased self-efficacy perception for healthy eating and oral health care. These variables wiil be evaluated through Self-efficacy for Health Scale. |
| Declarative Knowledge for Health | 3 years | Questions for evaluate children knowledge have about healthy eating and oral health. Will be evaluated the numbers of correct answer. These variable These variable wiil be evaluated through Declarative Knowledge for Health Instrument. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Body Mass Index | 3 years | Numbers of students with Index of overweight, obesity and thinness in the study population. These measure will be evaluated trough BMI. |
| Simplified Oral Hygiene Index - OHI-S | 3 years | Numbers and classification of Index of oral hygiene (good, regular and poor), Identified by the presence of dental plaque in the study population. |
| Food consumption information | 3 years | Seeks information from schoolchildren about the food they consumed on the day prior. will be evaluated the food group consumed in each meals on three days of week. These variable will evaluated by Previous Day Food Questionnaire . |
Countries
Brazil
Outcome results
None listed