Sardinha 2014

Trial name or title	Physical activity and family‐based intervention in paediatric obesity prevention in the school setting (PESSOA project)
Methods	Study design: Cluster‐randomised controlled trail Sequence generation: Not reported Allocation concealment: Not reported Unit of allocation: School Unit of analysis: Child Duration of intervention: Unclear, possibly 2 years Follow‐up: 2 years post‐baseline
Participants	N (randomised): Not reported N (completed): 1531 N (analysed): 1531 Age range: 12 to 14 years Sex: 49% female Ethnicity: Not reported Inclusion/exclusion criteria: All healthy students that attended the physical education classes were considered eligible to participate Geographical region: Portugal
Interventions	Intervention: 1. Intervention 1 received standard counselling (see standard care) and 90 minutes of weekly physical activity; and 2. intervention 2 received a 90‐minute additional session with health and weight educational programme and physical activity, implementing principles and basic knowledge within the components of physical activity, eating and wellbeing Standard practice: Standard counselling with general information on eating and physical activity
Outcomes	School achievement: Assessed using school grades at the end of academic year in mathematics, language (Portuguese), foreign language (English), and sciences. Provided by schools. Obesity indices: Participants were weighed to the nearest 0.1 kg and height was measured to the nearest 0.1 cm. BMI was obtained using the Quetelet index and participants were classified as having a normal weight, overweight or obesity, according to the gender‐ and age‐specific criterion‐referenced standards by the International Obesity Task Force
Starting date	September 2010
Contact information	Prof Luis Sardinha, lsardinha@fmh.ulisboa.pt
Notes	Completion date: 1 September 2013 No result report available so far. We contacted the authors twice to obtain data for children with overweight/obesity, no response yet Funding source: Supported by the FCT ‐ Science and Technology Foundation (Portugal). Trial registration: ISRCTN 76013675 (www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN76013675)