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Sports to Prevent Obesity
Not Recruiting
Trial ID: NCT00318877
Purpose
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.
Official Title
Sports to Prevent Obesity Randomized Trial
Stanford Investigator(s)
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- 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.
Exclusion Criteria:
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
Intervention(s):
behavioral: After school team sports program
behavioral: After school health education program
Not Recruiting
Contact Information
Stanford University
School of Medicine
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford,
CA
94305