Sports to Prevent Obesity
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Obesity
In brief
The purpose of this study is to learn whether overweight children who participate in an after school team sports program improve their health as much as overweight children in a more traditional health education program.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00318877
- Run by
- Stanford University
- People needed
- 79
- Starts
- 2006-05-01
- Expected to finish
- 2008-07-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2012-12-17
Who can join
Age: 8 and older, up to 11. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- In the participating school district
- 8-11.9 years old
- BMI >= 85th percentile for age and sex on the 2000 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) growth charts
- Clearance to participate from medical care provider
- Willing, able, and available to attend an after school program
- Not planning to move from school district within the next 12 months
- Speaks and reads English or Spanish
- Child has not repeated more than one grade in school
- Completion of signed active informed consent (parent or guardian) and assent (child) to participate, which includes a description of the two interventions and requires their willingness to be randomized.
You may not qualify if…
- The investigators' goal is to be as inclusive as possible, however, children will not be eligible to participate if they:
- Have a condition that limits their participation in physical activity enough that they are not able to participate in Physical Education at school (e.g. significant structural heart disease)
- Have been diagnosed with a chronic illness that affects their growth and/or weight (e.g. type 1 diabetes, hypothyroidism, inflammatory bowel disease)
- Have taken systemic steroids (oral, intravenous, or intramuscular) for a period of more than 21 days in the past year
- Are taking other medications affecting their growth and/or weight [e.g. methylphenidate hydrochloride (HCL)]
- Are pregnant
- Are unable to complete the informed consent process
Where it is running
- Stanford Prevention Research Center — Palo Alto, California, United States
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