An interventional study of Phisical activity intervention in Physical Activity, Fitness and Overweight and Obesity, sponsored by Universidad Autónoma de Chile. Status unknown at 1 site in Chile. Open to participants aged 4 Years to 18 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-12-11.
Sponsored by Universidad Autónoma de Chile · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a recreational physical activity intervention for reducing the prevalence of overweight/obesity and other cardiovascular risk factors
A greater intensity of the intervention, and a longer weekly duration that extends until the weekend, could improve the efficiency in obesity.
11,522 studies on the registry are indexed under Obesity; 2,033 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 800 is above the median of 67 across 9,006 interventional studies indexed under Obesity.
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Compared within Obesity, 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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Exclusion Criteria:
In the program we will perform a recreational physical activity intervention during one year that include standardized recreative and non competitive activities conducted by sports instructors
Behavioral: Phisical activity intervention
This group will not participate in the intervention
The prevalence of overweight in chilean children in the among the highest in the world and increasing quickly. The investigators recently evaluated an after-school program of recreational physical activity to control overweight, obesity and other cardiovascular risk factors in primary school children Temuco. This program reduced adiposity and increased the fitness.
Aerobic Capacity
By using 20-m shuttle run test, which is validated to measure maximal aerobic capacity in children from 4 years.
Time frame: 1 year
Muscle Strength
By using standing long jump test
Time frame: 1 year
Flexibility
By using the sit and reach test
Time frame: 1 year
Speed-agility
By using 4x10 meters shuttle run test
Time frame: 1 year
Health-related quality of life
By using the instrument for assessing Health-Related Quality of Life for children and adolescents aged 4-17 years (KINDL), in its version validated in Spanish. The KINDLR questionnaire consists of 24 Likert-scaled items associated with six dimensions: physical well-being, emotional well-being, self-esteem, family, friends and everyday functioning (school or nursery school/kindergarten). The sub-scales of these six dimensions can be combined to produce a total score. the score ranges from 0 to 100. Higher scores indicate better health-related quality of life.
Time frame: 1 year
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