An interventional study of physical activity in Motor Activity and Child Development, sponsored by University of Palermo. Completed. Open to participants aged 40 Months to 67 Months, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-03-05.
Sponsored by University of Palermo · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
Unlike other European countries, Italian kindergartens do not include the physical education teacher in the school organic personnel. This is frequently associated with the lack of opportunities to perform physical education by preschool children. The aim of this study was to analyse the effects of a specific 16-week-long physical education programme (PEP) of 16-week length on the development of locomotor and object control skills in preschool children.
We conducted a school-based non-randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effect of a specific 16-week-long physical education program (PEP) on the quotient of gross motor development (QGMD) in preschool children. This study involved 119 children who were clustered in a control group (CG, n= 29, age: 52.1±8.65 months; height: 1.1±0.07 m, body weight: 19.2±5.55 Kg, BMI: 16.9±3.16) and an intervention group (IG, n= 90, age: 57.4±9.42 months; height: 1.1±0.06 m, body weight: 19.3±3.65 Kg, BMI: 16±1.75). Participants were assessed for locomotor ability and object control skills using the Italian version of gross motor development test, before and after the experimental period.
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This study's enrollment of 119 is above the median of 60 across 8,388 interventional studies indexed under Motor Activity.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Physical activity intervention
Other: physical activity
Keep usual activities in kindergarten
Physical education program (PEP) of 16-week length
Quotient of gross motor development change
Quotient of gross motor development
Time frame: Change from Baseline at 16 weeks
BMI
Body mass index
Time frame: Change from Baseline at 16 weeks
Weight
Weight
Time frame: Change from Baseline at 16 weeks
Height
Height
Time frame: Change from Baseline at 16 weeks
Object control skills change
Object control
Time frame: Change from Baseline at 16 weeks
Locomotion skills change
locomotion
Time frame: Change from Baseline at 16 weeks
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Ran from Dec 2015 to primary completion in May 2016, 5 months.
Of 5,147 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Motor Activity, half reached primary completion within 17 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 7 and three quarters within 36. This study's 5 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 5,207 studies reached it within 17 months; a quarter within 7 and three quarters within 36.
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