title: Team sports for overweight children: the Stanford Sports to Prevent Obesity Randomized Trial (SPORT).
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of an after-school team sports program for reducing weight gain in low-income overweight children.
  
  
  METHODS
  Six-month, 2-arm, parallel-group, pilot randomized controlled trial.
  
  
  METHODS
  Low-income, racial/ethnic minority community.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-one children in grades 4 and 5 with a body mass index at or above the 85th percentile.
  
  
  METHODS
  The treatment intervention consisted of an after-school soccer program. The "active placebo" control intervention consisted of an after-school health education program.
  
  
  METHODS
  Implementation, acceptability, body mass index, physical activity measured using accelerometers, reported television and other screen time, self-esteem, depressive symptoms, and weight concerns.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All 21 children completed the study. Compared with children receiving health education, children in the soccer group had significant decreases in body mass index z scores at 3 and 6 months and significant increases in total daily, moderate, and vigorous physical activity at 3 months.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  An after-school team soccer program for overweight children can be a feasible, acceptable, and efficacious intervention for weight control.
authors.affiliation: Division of General Pediatrics and Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, 211 Quarry Rd, Hoover Pavilion, Room N032, Stanford, CA 94305-5705, USA. Dana.Weintraub@Stanford.edu
authors.forename: Dana L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Weintraub
authors.forename: Evelyn C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Tirumalai
authors.forename: K Farish
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Haydel
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fujimoto
authors.forename: Janet E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Fulton
authors.forename: Thomas N
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Robinson
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control; D050177:Overweight / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011203:Poverty; D012916:Soccer / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D012944:Social Support; D015430:Weight Gain