Clinical trial NCT02465372: Be a Champion! Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program
Official title: Utilizing Physical Activity Coordinators to Increase Physical Activity Among Youth
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Motor Activity
Keywords: Physical Activity
Youth
School Health
Lead sponsor: Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: University of South Carolina
name: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
First posted: 2015-06-08
Enrollment: 599
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 5
Maximum age (years): 12
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The purpose of this project is to develop a Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program (CSPAP) training protocol, and test the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of its delivery in an elementary school setting.

Detailed description: Children across the United States are insufficiently physically active. In response, numerous physical activity (PA) interventions have been developed and tested, the majority within the school setting. Unfortunately, these have resulted in limited, if any impact on children's PA. The investigators feel that this absence of effect stems from a lack of tailoring at the school level and a resulting lack in institutionalization. To address the latter issue, the investigators feel that it is important to leverage existing resources and capitalize on existing policies. The state of South Carolina has instituted the role of "Physical Activity Coordinators" to promote PA among students across and beyond the school day. However, while these positions are mandated by state law, the individuals in these positions often lack the training and support to maximize their impact. Our long-term goal is to develop best practices to inform the national movement to train school PA Coordinators to deliver a Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program (CSPAP) within schools that can be disseminated across the country. The objectives of the current application are to: 1) modify and expand existing CSPAP training curricula for PA Coordinators; 2) deliver the enhanced PA Coordinator training in our pilot schools; 3) conduct process evaluation on the implementation of a CSPAP by the PA Coordinators, and 4) evaluate the effectiveness of the trainings to increase children's objectively measured PA. The goal of the proposed study is to determine the acceptability, feasibility, and effectiveness of properly train PA Coordinators to promote PA in elementary school children. This goal will be achieved through the following aims: AIM 1: Develop an enhanced CSPAP training course and resource toolkit for PA Coordinators. AIM 2: Determine the acceptability/feasibility of the enhanced PA coordinator training and the implementation of a Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program in an elementary school setting. AIM 3: Determine the effectiveness of trained PA coordinators to increase objectively measured PA in elementary school youth. the investigators will randomize four schools to receive the PA Coordinator training (n=2) or continue standard practice (n=2). A comprehensive process and impact evaluation will be conducted to determine acceptability of the intervention, factors influencing implementation fidelity/dose, and the effectiveness of the PA Coordinators to increase physical activity measured via accelerometry in children.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Enrolled in grades 2 - 5 at the participating school sites.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Physical or mental impairment that would preclude physical activity or protocol compliance.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in Youth Physical Activity
timeFrame: baseline and one-year follow-up
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Feasibility of the Be a Champion! Program
timeFrame: Up to nine months.
measure: Acceptability of the Be a Champion! Program
timeFrame: Up to nine months.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Columbia
country: United States
facility: Justin B. Moore
state: South Carolina
Study officials:
affiliation: Wake Forest University Health Sciences
name: Justin Moore, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Singletary CR, Weaver G, Carson RL, Beets MW, Pate RR, Saunders RP, Peluso AG, Moore JB. Evaluation of a comprehensive school physical activity program: Be a Champion! Eval Program Plann. 2019 Aug;75:54-60. doi: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2019.04.003. Epub 2019 May 2.