The main objective is to evaluate the effects of a multicomponent, school-based intervention combining change in nutritional behaviors with after school physical activity activities in reducing the excessive weight gain in schoolchildren.
Specific objectives are: \- evaluate the effect of the program on: change in nutritional behaviors, such as reducing sugar sweetened beverages and cookies intake reduction of time spent in sedentary activities gains in school performance and cognition outcomes the amount of daily physical activity on the percentage of body fat, changes in biochemical markers and blood pressure.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
1,200
A combination of two prevention school based programs will be addressed to schoolchildren over one year. Primary prevention will be developed monthly in order to reduce cookies and sugar sweetened beverages consumption, reduction of sedentary activities, increase meal consumption frequency and quality etc, in all children from 6th and 7th grades. Overweight and obese children will be invited to participate on a secondary prevention program in which daily physical activity classes will be performed by physical education teachers in school facilities.
Public Schools
Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Body Mass Index
Time frame: One Year
Mean lean and fatty body mass proportions: measured by portable electrical bioimpedance bean
Time frame: One year
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