Reducing Beverages and Sugar and Increasing Physical Activity in Public School Adolescents From Brazil (PAPAS)
The main objective is to evaluate the effect on BMI of a school-based program that discourages the consumption of all sweetened beverages, encourages the reduction in sugar intake, and encourages the increase in physical activity among adolescents and their families from a low socioeconomic area.
|Study Design:||Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:||Preventing Excessive Weight Gain by Reducing Carbonated Beverage and Sugar Consumption and Increasing Physical Activity Among Public School Adolescents From the Metropolitan Area of Rio de Janeiro|
- Body mass index [ Time Frame: one year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Mean lean and fatty body mass proportions: measured by portable electrical bioimpedance bean [ Time Frame: one year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Study Start Date:||February 2010|
|Study Completion Date:||December 2010|
|Primary Completion Date:||November 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)|
Experimental: reducing beverages and sugar and increase physical activity
reduction of beverages and sugar and increasing physical activity
Based on beliefs and behaviors of children sections of education will be delivered via classroom activities.
Activities will be facilitated by trained research assistants. Printed instructions and orientations on the facilitation process will support the assistants' efforts. The activities will require 20 to 30 minutes, and teachers will be encouraged to reiterate the message during their lesson. The goal is to promote ten one-hour sessions of activity for each class.
Children will also be stimulated to increase everyday activities such as walking and playing games at home and school. Also, activities with parents and family members such as walking around the neighborhood on weekends will be promoted.
|No Intervention: control -no intervention|
Specific objectives are:
- To compare total, lean, and fatty body mass variation in adolescents aged 11 to 14, from 7th and 8th grades from schools under intervention and from the ones not subjected to the intervention program.
- To compare sweetened beverages consumption and sugar intake before and after the intervention in both groups of schools.
- To evaluate the impact of the intervention on the selling of sweetened beverages in the cafeterias.
- To compare change in family expenditures with sweetened beverages and sugar.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01046474
|20 Schools of Metropolitan Area|
|Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil|