School Intervention With Daily Physical Activity and Healthy Food for Students With an Intellectual Disability.

NCT01291238 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: 2009/772-32
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 145
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

A whole of school intervention with daily physical activity and healthy food for students with intellectual disabilities. The aim is to provide plenty of concrete examples of healthy life style choices and using school personnel and peers as role models. This will presumably result in healthier weight, better fitness and not least in new familiar healthy habits.

Conditions

Weight Loss; Food Habits; Mental Retardation

Keywords

learning disability; blood lipids; cardio metabolic risk factors; upper secondary school for learning disability students; adolescents; cardio respiratory fitness; absorptiometry photos

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Decrease in cardio metabolic risk factors

  At baseline and after 2 years of intervention; height, weight, waist circumference, blood pressure was measured. In addition fasting blood samples of total cholesterol, triglycerides, fasting glucose and insulin. Absorptiometry photos (DXA) for body composition. Postintervention measures in addition compared to a controlgroup. Cross sectional data on all school students of all above mentioned variables and also cholesterol as HDL and LDL compared to a control group.

  2 years

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Increase in physical fitness

  2 years

• Increased vegetable intake

  at least 1 year

Study Arms (1)

Healthy lifestyle habits

EXPERIMENTAL

Increased physical activity and healthy food with decreased sugar and fat content

Behavioral: Healthier, Smarter, Happier

Interventions

Healthier, Smarter, Happier BEHAVIORAL

Increased physical activity and decreased sugar and fat intake during school hours

Healthy lifestyle habits

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 16 Years - 22 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• mild/moderate intellectual disability
• students at the upper secondary schools for intellectual disability students

You may not qualify if:

• severe intellectual disability
• obesity related syndromes
• major physical disabilities

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Karolinska Institutet: lead
• Region Stockholm: collaborator
• City of Stockholm Competence Fund: collaborator
• Lindeparkens upper secondary school for intellectual disability students: collaborator
• Mälardalen University: collaborator
• Health Care Sciences Postgraduate School at the Karolinska Institutet: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Karolinska Institutet, Department of clinical science, intervention and technology. Division of pediatrics, B62

Stockholm, SE-141 86, Sweden

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Weight Loss; Feeding Behavior; Intellectual Disability; Learning Disabilities

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Body Weight Changes; Body Weight; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Behavior, Animal; Behavior; Neurobehavioral Manifestations; Neurologic Manifestations; Nervous System Diseases; Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Mental Disorders; Communication Disorders

Study Officials

• Claude Marcus, Professor

  Karolinska Institutet

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 7, 2011
• First Posted: February 8, 2011
• Study Start: March 1, 2004
• Primary Completion: June 1, 2007
• Study Completion: June 1, 2010
• Last Updated: February 8, 2011

Record last verified: 2011-02

Locations

SE (1)