title: The CHANGE! Project: Changes in Body Composition and Cardiorespiratory Fitness in 10- to 11-Year-Old Children After Completing the CHANGE! Intervention.
abstract: To assess the effects of the Children's Health, Activity and Nutrition: Get Educated! intervention on body size, body composition, and peak oxygen uptake in a subsample of 10- to 11-year-old children.
  
  
  
  Sixty children were recruited from 12 schools (N = 6 intervention) to take part in the CHANGE! subsample study. Baseline, postintervention, and follow-up measures were completed in October 2010, March-April 2011, and June-July 2011, respectively. Outcome measures were body mass index z score, waist circumference, body composition assessed using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (baseline and follow-up only), and peak oxygen uptake.
  
  
  
  Significant differences in mean trunk fat mass (control = 4.72 kg, intervention = 3.11 kg, P = .041) and trunk fat % (control = 23.08%, intervention = 17.75%, P = .022) between groups were observed at follow-up. Significant differences in waist circumference change scores from baseline to follow-up were observed between groups (control = 1.3 cm, intervention = -0.2 cm, P = .023). Favorable changes in body composition were observed in the intervention group; however, none of these changes reached statistical significance. No significant differences in peak oxygen uptake were observed.
  
  
  
  The results of the present study suggest the multicomponent curriculum intervention had small to medium beneficial effects on body size and composition health outcomes.
authors.affiliation: 1 Liverpool Hope University.
authors.forename: Rebecca M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Dagger
authors.affiliation: 2 Liverpool John Moores University.
authors.forename: Ian G
authors.initials: IG
authors.lastname: Davies
authors.affiliation: 3 Swansea University.
authors.forename: Kelly A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Mackintosh
authors.affiliation: 4 Edge Hill University.
authors.forename: Genevieve L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Stone
authors.affiliation: 5 Liverpool John Moores University.
authors.forename: Keith P
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: George
authors.affiliation: 6 Edge Hill University and University of Limerick.
authors.forename: Stuart J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Fairclough
authors.affiliation: 7 Liverpool John Moores University.
authors.forename: Lynne M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Boddy
mesh_terms: D015502:Absorptiometry, Photon; D001823:Body Composition; D015992:Body Mass Index; D000072599:Cardiorespiratory Fitness; D002648:Child; D003479:Curriculum; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D012574:Schools; D055105:Waist Circumference
keywords: adiposity; health; health promotion; nutrition; physical activity; physical fitness