School health program aims to stop childhood obesity in its tracks
NCT ID NCT06946173
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This completed study tested a health program to prevent obesity in 500 healthy children aged 6 to 12 living in Gharbia, Egypt. The program included dietary and lifestyle guidance, and researchers tracked changes in weight, height, BMI, and blood tests. The goal was to see if a school-based intervention could help keep kids at a healthy weight.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- health program (dietary and lifestyle intervention)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this program could offer a simple, school-based approach to help prevent childhood obesity in similar communities.
- What could go wrong
- This is a completed study with no phase designation, so results may not be widely applicable. The intervention is a general health program, not a drug, so effects may be modest and hard to sustain.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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500 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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May 2025
- Finished
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Dec 2025
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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6 to 12 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Health children their age between 6-12 years bone and live in Gharbia governorate. * Legal pre mission will be taken from each school movement system to assess over weight among there school children. * The children and their family included in the study will be able to follow program of health intervention to prevent obesity. Exclusion Criteria: * have active kidney your hepatic disease. * They have any endocrinal or genetic disorders. * The have diabetes mellitus and thyroid disease. * The children \& their family cannot follow instructions in the program of health interventions included in the study.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Nadia Mahmoud Arfa
Tanta, Egypt
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