Trial document
This trial has been registered retrospectively.
DRKS00016349
Trial Description
Title
Promotion of physical activity-related health competence in physical education
Trial Acronym
gekos
URL of the Trial
Brief Summary in Lay Language
Chronic diseases represent a major health problem in modern society. Therefore, the acquisition and development of physical activity-related health competence (PAHCO) is significant. PAHCO comprises motor, cognitive, and motivational elements, empowering individuals to initiate and carry out health-enhancing physical activities. Physical education (PE) at school represents an ideal setting to promote competences for a healthy and physically active lifestyle. This aim poses significant challenges for PE lessons, as both motor and cognitive-reflexive partial competences are to be increasingly developed in connection with the competence orientation in current education plans for the subject of sport (e.g. in Baden-Württemberg, 2016). This randomized controlled trial investigates to what extent a health and physical fitness intervention program of six PE lessons, including running and jumping activities (intervention group A) or small-sided ball games (intervention group B), can promote 9th graders' PAHCO. Both intervention programs are dealing with the topic of physical fitness and health and combine theory and practice. Trained PE teachers carry out the intervention classes. At the same time teachers of the control group teach regular PE lessons dealing with running and jumping activities (control group A) or games (control group B). The study is conducted in 48 classes that are randomly allocated to the different study groups. Six PE lessons were developed and evaluated together with PE teachers in the lead-up of the study. Students are tested prior to the study (pre-test), after the intervention period (post-test) and an 8-12 week follow-up. Students have to pass a physical fitness test and fill out surveys (health-related fitness knowledge test, self-assessment scales) to measure the effect on PAHCO. Different process variables were assessed during the intervention period to evaluate the quality of intervention implementation.
Brief Summary in Scientific Language
Chronic diseases represent a major health problem in modern society. Therefore, the acquisition and development of physical activity-related health competence (PAHCO) is significant. PAHCO comprises motor, cognitive, and motivational elements, empowering individuals to initiate and carry out health-enhancing physical activities. Physical education (PE) at school represents an ideal setting to promote competences for a healthy and physically active lifestyle. This aim poses significant challenges for PE lessons, as both motor and cognitive-reflexive partial competences are to be increasingly developed in connection with the competence orientation in current education plans for the subject of sport (e.g. in Baden-Württemberg, 2016). However, there is currently a lack of evaluated PE programs linking theoretical and practical elements. With that in mind this randomized controlled trial investigates to what extent a health and physical fitness intervention program of six PE lessons, including running and jumping activities (intervention group A) or small-sided ball games (intervention group B), can promote 9th graders' PAHCO. Both intervention programs include learning tasks dealing with the topic of physical fitness and health and combine theory and practice. Trained PE teachers carry out the intervention classes. At the same time teachers of the control group teach regular PE lessons dealing with running and jumping activities (control group A) or games (control group B). The study is conducted in 48 classes that are randomly allocated to the different study groups. Six PE lessons were developed and evaluated together with PE teachers in the lead-up of the study. Students are tested prior to the study (pre-test), after the intervention period (post-test) and an 8-12 week follow-up. Students have to pass a physical fitness test and fill out surveys (health-related fitness knowledge test, self-assessment scales) to measure the effect on PAHCO. Different process variables were assessed during the intervention period to evaluate the quality of intervention implementation.
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Organizational Data
- DRKS00016349
- 2019/01/10
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- Approved
- 2017_0825_78, Kommission für Ethik in der psychologischen Forschung, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Tübingen
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Health Condition or Problem studied
- Promotion of physical activity-related health competence to initiate and perform physical activity.
Interventions/Observational Groups
- Intervention groups receive six PE lessons differing only in the type of physical activity (running and jumping activities (intervention group A) vs. small-sided games (intervention group B)). Contents and methods are fully described in a manual. The six PE lessons focus on health and physical fitness, and practical and theoretical elements are linked within five learning tasks.
- PE teachers of the control group teach their regular lessons with running and jumping activities (control group A) or games (control group B).
Characteristics
- Interventional
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- Randomized controlled trial
- Blinded
- investigator/therapist
- Active control (effective treament of control group)
- Prevention
- Parallel
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- N/A
Primary Outcome
This study examines to what extent six PE lessons in the intervention groups (intervention A/B) lead to a higher acquisition of PAHCO (physical activity-related health competence) compared to regular PE classes of the control groups (control group A/B). Components of PAHCO are assessed at three time points (pre-test, post-test, after 8-12 week follow-up). In detail intervention effects on health-related fitness knowledge (performance test), control competence for physical training (self-report measurement), as well as strength (DMT – Deutscher Motorik Test) and endurance tests (Shuttle-run-test) are recorded.
Secondary Outcome
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Countries of Recruitment
- Germany
Locations of Recruitment
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Recruitment
- Actual
- 2017/09/14
- 1248
- Multicenter trial
- National
Inclusion Criteria
- Both, male and female
- no minimum age
- no maximum age
Additional Inclusion Criteria
Secondary schools ('Gymnasium), 9th graders, school located in Baden-Württemberg
Exclusion Criteria
PE as a major, PE teachers have not completed their degrees
Addresses
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- Institut für Sportwissenschaft der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
- Wilhelmstraße 124
- 72074 Tübingen
- Germany
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- Institut für Sportwissenschaft der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
- Mr. Prof. Dr. Gorden Sudeck
- Wilhelmstr. 124
- 72074 Tübingen
- Germany
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- gorden.sudeck at uni-tuebingen.de
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- Institut für Sportwissenschaft der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
- Mr. Prof. Dr. Oliver Höner
- Wilhelmstraße 124
- 72074 Tübingen
- Germany
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- oliver.hoener at uni-tuebingen.de
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- Institut für Sportwissenschaft der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
- Mr. Prof. Dr. Ansgar Thiel
- Wilhelmstraße 124
- 72074 Tübingen
- Germany
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- ansgar.thiel at uni-tuebingen.de
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- Institut für Sportwissenschaft der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
- Ms. Stephanie Haible
- Wilhelmstr. 124
- 72074 Tübingen
- Germany
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- stephanie.haible at uni-tuebingen.de
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- Institut für Sportwissenschaft der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
- Ms. Carmen Volk
- Wilhelmstr. 124
- 72074 Tübingen
- Germany
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- carmen.volk at uni-tuebingen.de
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Sources of Monetary or Material Support
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V.
- Kennedyallee 40
- 53175 Bonn
- Germany
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Status
- Recruiting complete, follow-up complete
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- 2019/05/26
- 860
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Trial Publications, Results and other Documents
- Haible, S., Volk, C., Demetriou, Y., Höner, O., Thiel, A., Trautwein, U., & Sudeck, G. (2019). Promotion of physical activity-related health competence in physical education: study protocol for the GEKOS cluster randomized controlled trial. BMC Public Health, 19(1), 396. doi:10.1186/s12889-019-6686-4
- Rosenstiel, S., Volk, C., Schmid, J., Wagner, W., Demetriou, Y., Höner, O., Thiel, A., Trautwein, U. & Sudeck, G. (2021). Promotion of physical activity-related health competence in physical education: A person-oriented approach for evaluating the GEKOS intervention within a cluster randomized controlled trial. European Physical Education Review, 1-21. doi: 10.1177/1356336X211037432
- Volk, C., Rosenstiel, S., Demetriou, Y., Krustrup, P., Thiel, A., Trautwein, U., Wagner, W., Höner, O., Sudeck, G. (2021). Effects of a physical education intervention programme for ninth-graders on physical activity-related health competence: Findings from the GEKOS cluster randomised controlled trial. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 55, 101923. doi: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2021.101923