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Physical activity to prevent obesity in young children: cluster randomised controlled trial
Author(s) -
Reading Richard
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2007.00757_4.x
Subject(s) - body mass index , physical therapy , medicine , randomized controlled trial , cluster randomised controlled trial , physical activity , intervention (counseling) , cluster (spacecraft) , obesity , psychiatry , computer science , programming language
Physical activity to prevent obesity in young children: cluster randomised controlled trial.
Reilly , J. J. , Kelly , L. , Montgomery , C. , Williamson , A. , Fisher , A. , McColl , J. H. , Lo Conte , R. , Paton , J. Y. & Grant , S.(2006)British Medical Journal,333,1041
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.38979.623773.55.Objective To assess whether a physical activity intervention reduces body mass index in young children. Design Cluster randomized controlled single blinded trial over 12 months. Setting Thirty‐six nurseries in Glasgow, Scotland. Participants In total, 545 children in their pre‐school year, mean age 4.2 years (SD 0.2) at baseline. Intervention Enhanced physical activity programme in nursery (three 30‐minute sessions a week over 24 weeks) plus home‐based health education aimed at increasing physical activity through play and reducing sedentary behaviour. Main outcome measure Body mass index, expressed as a standard deviation score relative to UK 1990 reference data. Secondary measures were objectively measured physical activity and sedentary behaviour; fundamental movement skills; and evaluation of the process. Results Group allocation had no significant effect on the primary outcome measure at 6 and 12 months or on measures of physical activity and sedentary behaviour by accelerometry. Children in the intervention group had significantly higher performance in movement skills tests than control children at 6‐month follow‐up ( P = 0.0027; 95% CI 0.3–1.3) after adjustment for sex and baseline performance. Conclusions Physical activity can significantly improve motor skills but did not reduce body mass index in young children in this trial.