Welcome to the official website for The Fit Study!
The Fit Study was funded by the National Institutes of Health, looking at how physical fitness testing might improve child health and well-being, with a focus on body mass index (BMI) screening and reporting. The Fit Study began in August 2014 and ended in June 2017. The Fit Study had the following three goals:
To determine the impact of BMI screening and reporting on obesity and obesity disparities among youth.
To compare the impact of reporting BMI alone versus with reporting BMI with physical fitness test results.
To determine the extent to which BMI screening increases weight-based stigmatization among youth.
Seventy-nine schools from five school districts across California participated in The Fit Study.
The Fit Study was conducted by researchers in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. Read more about the research team here.