Effectiveness of a Pre-adolescent Inter-generational Intervention to Address HIV and Obesity

Addressing the Double Burden of Diseases Through a Pre-adolescent Transdisciplinary Intervention for Inter-generational Outcomes

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT04307966

Enrollment

852

Registered

2020-03-13

Start date

2018-05-01

Completion date

2018-06-30

Last updated

2020-03-13

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Conditions

Hiv, Obesity

Keywords

inter-generational outcomes, Pre-adolescents

Brief summary

The study evaluates an intervention, The CIrCLE of Life Initiative, which was developed to address HIV and obesity prevention. We evaluated whether the combined HIV and obesity intervention increased knowledge, enhanced skills, and/or promoted healthy behaviour among pre-adolescent students (9-12 years old) and their parents.

Detailed description

The CIrCLE of Life Initiative had both a school and home component, each comprising a learning curriculum, environmental support, and activity-based constituents that aimed to increase student knowledge and skills, and to engage parents. Trained educators delivered lessons about HIV and obesity to all Grade 6 students at 5 government-run schools. The classroom curriculum for students required delivery of a five-hour face-to-face intervention delivered weekly through 10 30-minute lessons. Students were asked to communicate their learnings to their parents at home. Parents were requested to read through the lesson in a workbook and to sign acknowledgement that they had read the content. The workbook contained shared student-parent homework activities that took approximately 30 minutes per week.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALThe CIrCLE of Life Initiative

HIV and obesity prevention programme delivered directly to Grade 6 preadolescents and indirectly to their parents.

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

9 Years to 14 Years

Inclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
HIV/AIDS-related knowledge, attitude, behaviour, practices and skills	3 months	The primary outcome was the effects and differences between the student, pretest and posttest, and the parent, pretest and posttest.
obesity-related awareness, attitude and skills	3 months	The primary outcome was the effects and differences between the student, pretest and posttest, and the parent, pretest and posttest.
nutrition-related awareness, attitude, behaviour and skills	3 months	The primary outcome was the effects and differences between the student, pretest and posttest, and the parent, pretest and posttest.
physical activity-related awareness, attitude, behaviour and skills	3 months	The primary outcome was the effects and differences between the student, pretest and posttest, and the parent, pretest and posttest.
child-parent communication	3 months	The primary outcome was the effects and differences between the student, pretest and posttest, and the parent, pretest and posttest.

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
pre-adolescent parent inter-generational knowledge transfer	3 months	The second outcome determined whether the intervention, delivered to students, could influence knowledge transfer and translation in parents.

Countries

South Africa

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 13, 2026