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Register: ISRCTN
Last refreshed on: 20 June 2023
Main ID:  ISRCTN43284296
Date of registration: 28/04/2017
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: TrygFonden
Public title: Healthy High School: a high school intervention to improve well-being among students
Scientific title: Healthy High School: a cluster randomised, multi-component, high school-based trial to improve well-being among students
Date of first enrolment: 06/04/2016
Target sample size: 6097
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN43284296
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Cluster-randomised controlled trial (Quality of life)  
Phase:  Not Applicable
Countries of recruitment
Denmark
Contacts
Name: Rikke Fredenslund    Krølner
Address:  Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 2nd floor 1353 Copenhagen K Denmark
Telephone: +45 (0)6550 7841
Email: rkr@niph.dk
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Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria:
1. Attending high schools with a minimum of two school year 1 classes that participated in the Danish National Youth Study 2014, in which 66% of all Danish High Schools attended
2. First year students attending the general upper secondary education provision of the Gymnasium (the stx programme) in the school year 20016/2017

Exclusion criteria:
1. Students attending International upper secondary school classes
2. Students in classes participating in the Team Danmark programme
3. High schools with a majority of boarding school students


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Age maximum:
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Well-being, movement, meal and eating habits, stress, sleep and sense of community
Not Applicable
Intervention(s)

A strategic sample of 40 high schools, which had all participated in the Danish National Youth Study (DNYS) 2014, was invited to participate in the study. DNYS 2014 is a national questionnaire survey focusing on health behaviour, health and well-being among Danish high school students. All high schools in Denmark (n=137) were invited to participate in DNYS of which 119 high schools accepted the invitation. Data from DNYS was used to rank the high schools based on the students’ answers to the Cantril Ladder of Life Scale. The 40 high schools with the lowest proportion of students with a high level of well-being (rating 7-10 on the Cantril Ladder) comprised the strategic sample and were invited to participate in the study. Schools were randomized into intervention and control groups by computer-based random number generation. Selection of target group, development of the intervention programme and evaluation design is guided by the Intervention Mapping protocol.

Students in high school year 1 (˜age 16) at the intervention schools receive the intervention programme (described below) during school year 2016/17 (nine months), whereas students at the control schools do not receive any intervention (no treatment). Intervention components will be offered to the control schools after the finalisation of the project.

Timeline:
Baseline survey: August 2016
Implementation of intervention in intervention high schools: August 2016-April 2017
First follow-up survey: May 2017
Second follow-up survey: April/May 2018

Intervention programme:
Program activities were organized within two settings (at high school and in the leisure time setting)
Primary Outcome(s)
Well-being, measured using the WHO-Five Well-Being Index and the Cantril Ladder of Life Scale (online survey) at 1st and 2nd follow-up
Secondary Outcome(s)

1. Stress, measured by:
1.1. The 10-item Perceived Stress Scale (online survey)
1.2. Stress intensity and stress frequency (online survey and SMS survey)

2. Sleep, measured by:
2.1. Sleep quantity (online survey)
2.2. Sleep quality (online survey)

3. Movement, measured by:
3.1. Hours of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity per week (online survey)
3.2. Average daily physical activity measured in a subsample (accelerometer)
3.3. Hours of daily sedentary time (online survey, accelerometer)

4. Meal and eating habits, measured by:
4.1. Daily intake of breakfast (online survey)
4.2. Daily intake of lunch (online survey)
4.3. Daily intake of water (online survey)

5. Sense of community, measured by:
5.1. Sense of community at high school (online survey)
5.2. School class sense of community (online survey)

All secondary outcome measures will be measured at both 1st and 2nd follow-up.
Secondary ID(s)
02-2015-1364
Source(s) of Monetary Support
TrygFonden, Nordea-fonden
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Nordea-fonden
Ethics review
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There is no formal institution for ethical assessment and approval of questionnaire-based population studies in Denmark. Conforming to current national legislation, the project was submitted to The Regional Scientific Ethical Committees, The Capital Region of Denmark. The committee decided that the project was exempt from the obligation to notify. Notification of this decision was forwarded via email 04/03/2016, ref: J.nr 16018722. This project is registered at the Danish Data Protection Agency,
Results
Results available: Yes
Date Posted:
Date Completed: 01/06/2019
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