Exercise looks after you: Piloting a programme to prevent obesity in children

INTERVENTION: Intervention group: The 6‐month programme includes two one‐hour sessions of an exercise programme per week. Each session includes 20‐minute physical exercise to improve fitness, a 30‐minute activity to improve sport skills, and 10‐minute of healthy lifestyle advice (nutrition, possibilities of doing physical exercise during leisure time). Control group: Usual care only CONDITION: Obesity ; Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine ; Obesity PRIMARY OUTCOME: 1. Level of physical activity (minutes per week) in sports and leisure time, assessed by a questionnaire at 12 months; 2. Fitness tests (agility, hand‐grip, jump test, velocity, endurance, flexibility, body composition, waist‐hip index) at baseline and 3 months; 3. Health care costs, assessed at baseline and 3 months ; 4. Health‐related quality of life, measured using the EuroQol EQ‐5D, EQ‐5D (Child) and PedsQSl questionnaires at 12 months SECONDARY OUTCOME: 1. Nutritional intake (24 h recall), assessed at baseline and 3 months; 2. Blood samples (cholesterol, glucose, Hb1Ac), assessed at baseline and 3 months INCLUSION CRITERIA: 1. Children aged 8 to 12 years old 2. Obesity type I and II (Body Mass Index >= age and gender adjusted 95 percentile) 3. Capacity to walk for 10 minutes