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CompletedNCT03283904AS:SkUpdated Feb 10, 2020

Active Schools: Skelmersdale

An interventional study of Multicomponent physical activity intervention in Physical Activity and Sedentary Lifestyle, sponsored by Edge Hill University. Completed at 1 site in United Kingdom. Open to participants aged 9 Years to 10 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-02-10.

Primary conditionSedentary BehaviorRegistry: Motor ActivityReclassifiedWhy we changed it
Registry
Motor Activity — the first condition term the registry derived for this study.
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Sedentary Behavior
Why
  1. Motor Activity is a broad heading, used only when no more specific condition is named.
  2. The study's listed conditions name Sedentary Behavior.
Confidence
High: the new condition is named in the study's own listed conditions. Of 351 hand-checked studies reclassified this way, 68% were exactly right and 84% in the right disease family; the registry's first term was right for 5% (measured 2026-10-21). How we classify →
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Sponsored by Edge Hill University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention

Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
250
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
9 Years to 10 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The aim of AS:Sk is to improve physical activity levels and health-related outcomes of children from the Skelmersdale area of West Lancashire through a school-based physical activity multi-component intervention.

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The multi-component intervention is the third and final phase of the AS:Sk project. It will be implemented and evaluated in four of the seven participating schools. The remaining three schools will act as controls and will not implement any physical activity intervention during the period of the research project. Schools will be randomly assigned to either intervention or control conditions. The multi-component intervention will involve multiple areas of the schools' curricula, environments, or policies being targeted. Decisions regarding these intervention components will be influenced by what was deemed effective, and feasible within phase 2 of the project. Phase 2 included a four week trial of three different single component physical activity interventions across all participating schools. Phase 3 will be implemented for at least eight weeks and if successful, it would then be rolled out in the control schools at the end of the project. Participants from both intervention and control schools will take part in the measures for evaluation in this third and final phase of the project.

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Conditions studied

  • Physical Activity
  • Sedentary Lifestyle

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Keywords

  • Children
  • Schools
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In context

Sedentary Behavior Reclassified

1,273 studies on the registry are indexed under Sedentary Behavior; 300 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 250 is above the median of 60 across 1,076 interventional studies indexed under Sedentary Behavior.

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Lead sponsor

Edge Hill University is the lead sponsor of 3 studies on the registry; 1 is open to participants now.

Compared within Sedentary Behavior, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Motor Activity. The counts are of registry records indexed under each term, refreshed daily. How we classify →

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
9 Years to 10 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

  • Year 5 pupil attending participating schools

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

-

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
250 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Multicomponent PA intervention

    Intervention schools will adopt a multicomponent intervention by integrating physical activities into different parts of the school day

    Other: Multicomponent physical activity intervention

Interventions

  • OtherMulticomponent physical activity intervention

    School-based multicomponent intervention

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. School-day moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA)

    Minutes of school-day MVPA accrued

    Time frame: 7 days

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Study locations

1 site
  • Edge Hill University
    Ormskirk, Lancs L39 4QP, United Kingdom
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References and documents

Publications

  • Taylor SL, Curry WB, Knowles ZR, Noonan RJ, McGrane B, Fairclough SJ. Predictors of Segmented School Day Physical Activity and Sedentary Time in Children from a Northwest England Low-Income Community. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2017 May 16;14(5):534. doi: 10.3390/ijerph14050534. PubMed 28509887 ↗
  • Fairclough SJ, Dumuid D, Taylor S, Curry W, McGrane B, Stratton G, Maher C, Olds T. Fitness, fatness and the reallocation of time between children's daily movement behaviours: an analysis of compositional data. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2017 May 10;14(1):64. doi: 10.1186/s12966-017-0521-z. PubMed 28486972 ↗
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Feb 10, 2020, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03283904
Lead sponsor
Edge Hill University
Collaborators
West Lancashire Sport Partnership, West Lancashire Leisure Trust
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Sep 14, 2017
Start date
Sep 13, 2017
Primary completion
Dec 15, 2017
Completion
Jun 30, 2018
Last update
Feb 10, 2020

Study contacts

Stuart J Fairclough
principal investigator · Edge Hill University

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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