Active Programme Promoting Lifestyle Education in Schools (APPLES)

ISRCTN	ISRCTN61188203
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN61188203
Secondary identifying numbers	PCC112 RUDOLF R&D

Submission date: 23/01/2004
Registration date: 23/01/2004
Last edited: 01/08/2012

Recruitment status: No longer recruiting
Overall study status: Completed
Condition category: Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine

Prospectively registered

Protocol

Statistical analysis plan

Results

Individual participant data

Plain English summary of protocol

Not provided at time of registration

Contact information

Dr Mary Rudolf
Scientific

Department of Community Paediatrics
Belmont House
3/5 Belmont Grove
Leeds
LS2 9NP
United Kingdom

Phone	+44 (0)113 292 6352
Email	Mary.Rudolf@leedsth.nhs.uk

Study information

Study design	Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design	Interventional
Secondary study design	Randomised controlled trial
Study setting(s)	Other
Study type	Other
Scientific title
Study acronym	APPLES
Study objectives	Obesity is a major public health problem affecting some 15% of the adult population, causing significant morbidity. As such, it forms one of the Health of the Nation targets. Control of obesity, once established is notoriously difficult to achieve, and preventative measures are therefore required. The proposed study has been designed to determine whether a Primary School based health education programme can influence life style factors (namely nutrition and exercise) and so affect the development of obesity.
Ethics approval(s)	Not provided at time of registration
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied	Other nutritional, metabolic and endocrine disease
Intervention	1. Primary School based health education programme 2. No programme
Intervention type	Other
Primary outcome measure	If successful, an improvement in quality of diet and levels of exercise will be achieved in children of all weights, along with a reduction in the number of children in the overweight category. The principal benefit to the NHS will be the development of a novel approach to the problem of obesity for an age group where it is most likely to have an effect. Other benefits include the adoption of Health Promoting School principles in additional schools in Leeds, validation of the new BMI charts in childhood, and critical trial of health education curriculum materials.
Secondary outcome measures	Not provided at time of registration
Overall study start date	06/01/1996
Completion date	31/05/1999

Eligibility

Participant type(s)	Patient
Age group	Child
Sex	Both
Target number of participants	Not provided at time of registration
Key inclusion criteria	Children attending primary schools in Leeds
Key exclusion criteria	Does not match inclusion criteria
Date of first enrolment	06/01/1996
Date of final enrolment	31/05/1999

Locations

Countries of recruitment

England
United Kingdom

Study participating centre

Department of Community Paediatrics

Leeds
LS2 9NP
United Kingdom

Sponsor information

NHS R&D Regional Programme Register - Department of Health (UK)
Government

The Department of Health
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NL
United Kingdom

Phone	+44 (0)20 7307 2622
Email	dhmail@doh.gsi.org.uk
Website	http://www.doh.gov.uk

Funders

Funder type

Government

NHS Executive Northern and Yorkshire (UK)

No information available

Results and Publications

Intention to publish date
Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share	No
IPD sharing plan summary	Not provided at time of registration
Publication and dissemination plan	Not provided at time of registration
IPD sharing plan

Study outputs

Output type	Details	Date created	Date added	Peer reviewed?	Patient-facing?
Results article	results	03/11/2001		Yes	No