Academic Performance, Nutrition, Physical Activity, Physical Fitness
Conditions
Keywords
School, Health, Academic performance, Physical activity
Brief summary
The study examine possible changes in physical activity, nutrition, and psychosocial health following the intervention Active and Healthy Kids in Telemark. The intervention schools will received the intervention, whereas the control schools will continue as usual.
Detailed description
School based, health promoting interventions with focus on increase physical activity and improved nutrition seems to be a good solution to the challenges with low physical activity level, poor physical fitness, poor nutrition and psychosocial health challenges among children and adolescents. Low physical activity levels and physical fitness is recognized as one of the major public health challenges in the 21st century, and it negatively affects cognitive skills and academic performances. Providing school based health promoting interventions makes it easier to reach all children and adolescents regardless of social and cultural background, and hence reduce social inequalities in health.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALActivity and diet
Physical activity: use of physical activity in theoretical subjects (3 x 30 min/week), physically active breaks (5 x 5 min/week), physical education (2 x 45 min/week) Nutrition: focus on school meals
Sponsors
University of South-Eastern Norway
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
11 Years to 14 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Pupil 8th grade
Exclusion criteria
* Inadequate language skills to complete questionnaire
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Physical activity (counts per minute) | 4 days | Objectively assessment of physical activity by accelerometer Actigraph GT3x |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Physical fitness: Andersen test | 10 minutes | Andersen test to measure endurance capacity, running test on 20 m track for 10 minutes. Number of metres ran during the 10 minutes is registered. |
| Physical fitness: standing long jump | 2 minutes | Standing long jump to measure explosive strength. Each subject gets two trials. Longest trial is registered in cm. |
| Nutrition and diet: questionnaire | 5 minutes | self-report through own-developed questionnaire (not standardised scale) |
| Health-related Quality of Life | 10 minutes | KIDSCREEN-27 (unabbreviated name) is a 27 item self-report instrument for health-related quality of life in children and adolescents. Each item is scored on a Likert scale from 1 to 5. The scores of each item are clustered into five dimensions: Physical Well-Being, Psychological Well-Being, Autonomy & Parents, Peers & Social Support and School Environment. Each dimension, or subscale, is scored as Rasch scales (i.e., sum of item scores for each subscale, transform the raw sumscores into Rasch person parameter estimates and T-values according to the KIDSCREEN-27 manual (KIDSCREEN group Europe, 2006)). For all these dimensions, higher Rasch scores and T-scores indicate better quality of life according to that given dimension. |
| Academic performance: grades in subjects Norwegian, mathematics and English | 45 minutes | Results from national tests which assess level of academic performance among the pupils |
Countries
Norway
Outcome results
None listed