CompletedNot Applicable

MOVEOUT: A Cluster RCT Investigating Education Outside the Classroom

Denmark730 participantsStarted 2022-02-23

Plain-language summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficacy of an education outside the classroom (EOtC) intervention on adolescents' physical activity, school motivation, academic achievement, and wellbeing. The study will also investigate which pedagogical and didactical elements of EOtC are important to achieve more physical activity, school motivation, and wellbeing.

Who can participate

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria * Non-special need municipal primary and lower secondary school classes grade 4-10. * Classes not involved in other school development or research projects. * Participants for whom parents or legal guardians have provided written informed consent. * Outcome data at baseline (for PA at least one time point; either winter or spring) Exclusion Criteria * Classes not able to comply with the following will be excluded from per-protocol analysis, but will be included in the intention-to-treat analysis: intervention group classes should have a school-year average of \>150 min of weekly EOtC and the control group classes should have a school-year average of \<=150 min of weekly EOtC. * Pupils with significant health problems as judged by the investigators based on parents or legal guardians report of child health status will be excluded from the analysis.

What they're measuring

Physical Activity

Timeframe: 1 school year

School motivation

Timeframe: 1 school year

Wellbeing

Timeframe: 1 school year

Reading competence

Timeframe: 1 school year

Mathematics skills

Timeframe: 1 school year

Trial details

NCT IDNCT05237674

SponsorUniversity of Copenhagen

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2023-06-21

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