Co-Creating Active Middle School Communities to Increase Student Physical Activity

ConditionPhysical Activity

Trial statusRecruiting

Trial phaseNot applicable

Trial typeInterventional

Biological sexAll

Age11-99

SponsorDeanna Hoelscher

About this trial

The purpose of this study is to identify community-level barriers and facilitators for active transport and leisure physical activity and to co-create and test the effectiveness and longer-term sustainability of community-based physical activity intervention strategies in middle schools. Participation in this study may help the investigators and scientific community better understand and address child physical activity and health. This study will collect information about middle school children's physical activity behaviors, habits, knowledge, and activity. The UTHealth School of Public Health is leading the study together with the University of Texas at Austin.

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Parent/guardian and child/adolescent dyads

Child/adolescent must be enrolled in the 6th grade at participating schools at baseline

Parent/guardian and child/adolescent must reside in the same household

Parent/guardian and child/adolescent must reside within the school catchment area (school community)

Disqualifiers

Child/adolescent has a condition that precludes or decreases participation in physical activity

Child/adolescent cannot complete a written survey

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

Active Middle School Communities
Behavioral
This intervention will engage multi-sectoral and multi-generational community members and middle school students to co-produce (co-design, co-implementation, and co-evaluation) contextually-responsive intervention strategies to improve access to active transport and leisure, resulting in increased physical activity and decreased risk for chronic disease in middle school communities. This intervention will use community-based participatory methods, with resources provided for changes in the built environment around the school catchment area.

Treatment groups

450 Participants

are divided into 2 treatment groups

Group A: Physical activity intervention co-produced by the community and investigatorsExperimental treatment 1 intervention

Group B: Usual environmental and programmatic programsNo intervention 0 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

Child/adolescent physical activity

Measured using Accelerometry to determine minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA)

Time frame

Baseline, 12 months (initial effectiveness), and 24 months (sustainability)

Secondary outcomes

Percentage of children/adolescents using active transport to/from school

Measured using Active Commuting to School Tallies to obtain counts of children/adolescents who walk or bike to or from school compared to all children/adolescents

Time frame

Data will be collected for 4 years in both fall and spring each year (Years 2-5) for 8 data points.

Sponsors and contacts

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Deanna Hoelscher

Lead sponsor

The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

Sponsor institution

University of Texas at Austin

Collaborator

National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)