Active Kindergarten - Active Children

NCT04555746 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 1326
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 130
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

The AK-AC study was designed as a two-arm, randomised by ECEC institution, evaluative controlled trial with the overarching aim of increasing the children's PA level and reduce sedentary time.

Conditions

Healthy Lifestyle

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Differences in accelerometer-measured physical activity and sedentary time at 4-month follow-up between intervention and control group

  Free-living PA was assessed using ActiGraph GT1M and GT3X+accelerometers (ActiGraph, LLC, Pensacola, FL, USA). The participants were instructed to wear the accelerometer on the left hip during their stay at the preschool for five consecutive days. The epoch length (sample interval) was set to 15 s. PA data were included if the participant had accumulated a minimum of 6 h of activity data per day for at least two days. The minutes spent in various levels of PA intensity were calculated. Sedentary behavior (sedentary time) was defined as ≤239 counts, light intensity PA was defined as 240 to 2119 counts, moderate intensity PA was defined as 2120 to 4449 counts, and any amount above 4450 was considered vigorous or very vigorous intensity PA.

  5 days on both baseline and posttest

Study Arms (2)

Physical activity

EXPERIMENTAL

Physical activity

Behavioral: Physical activity

Control

NO INTERVENTION

Waiting list

Interventions

Physical activity BEHAVIORAL

Four PA experts (researchers (PhD) within the field of PA and health in children, and physical education teachers) in collaboration with two members of the ECEC staff and two members of the municipality health department (paediatric physiotherapists) developed a frame for the intervention based on COP elements to be further developed, concretized and implemented by the staff. The intervention lasted for four months and contained the following components (Table 1): pre-meetings and follow up meetings in each ECEC institution; start up seminar and two follow up courses with all the staff members; ongoing planning and collective reflections practice in the ECEC institutions; Facebook group; and an equipment-package.

Physical activity

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 3 Years - 4 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• All children attending one of the 11 public ECEC institutions in Sandefjord municipality and born in 2011 (three or four year olds)

You may not qualify if:

• None

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of South-Eastern Norway: lead

Related Publications (1)

• Andersen E, Ovreas S, Jorgensen KA, Borch-Jenssen J, Moser T. Children's physical activity level and sedentary behaviour in Norwegian early childhood education and care: effects of a staff-led cluster-randomised controlled trial. BMC Public Health. 2020 Nov 4;20(1):1651. doi: 10.1186/s12889-020-09725-y.

  PMID: 33148218 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Interventions

Exercise

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Motor Activity; Movement; Musculoskeletal Physiological Phenomena; Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: TRIPLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, INVESTIGATOR, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Associate professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 9, 2020
• First Posted: September 21, 2020
• Study Start: September 1, 2015
• Primary Completion: May 1, 2016
• Study Completion: May 1, 2016
• Last Updated: September 22, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-09

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share