Clinical trial NCT02289313: Development of a Youth Healthy Living Program With Underserved Adolescents at Rochester Alternative Learning Center
Official title: Development of a Youth Healthy Living Program at the Rochester Alternative Learning Center
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Childhood Obesity
Keywords: obesity prevention
CBPR
high risk youth
school health
Lead sponsor: Mayo Clinic
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Rochester Alternative Learning Center
First posted: 2014-11-13
Enrollment: 48
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 12
Maximum age (years): 70
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Approximately one third of the children and adolescents in the United States are either overweight or obese. Childhood obesity disproportionately affects specific racial and ethnic groups and households with low socioeconomic status and low parental education. The Alternative Learning Center (ALC) within Rochester School District 535 provides viable educational options for students who are experiencing difficulty in regular educational systems. A greater proportion of students at ALC are minorities, qualify for free and reduced lunch and receive special education services. These children are likely to have unique barriers to physical activity and healthy eating.

Specific Aims:

Aim 1: Examine the association between BMI and ethnic/ socioeconomic variables and behaviors related to physical activity and eating in ALC students.

Aim 2: Develop an age and culturally appropriate on-site program that promotes healthy lifestyle.

Detailed description: Investigators will assess the relationship between BMI and ethnicity, socioeconomic variables and behaviors related to nutrition and physical activity among 200 ALC students. Investigators will also conduct 6 gender stratified (3 boys, 3 girls) focus groups with students (n=24), up to 3 focus groups with their parents (n=24) and one focus group with staff and volunteers in order to understand perceived barriers towards healthy weight/nutrition/physical activity. Investigators will then utilize this information to co-develop a healthy living program at ALC. Investigators will finally test the feasibility of the program they develop over a period of 3 months in ALC students. Study findings will inform further research to test the efficacy and validity of the program developed at ALC in a subsequent school based trial with the future goal of obtaining funding for cluster randomized controlled trials among other schools in the region.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion criteria:

* Rochester Alternative Learning Center students ages 12 years to 20 years
* Parents/guardians of ALC students
* ALC staff.

Exclusion criteria:

* Inability to assent or consent to participate in the study.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Behaviors related to healthy eating and physical activity
timeFrame: 3 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Weight and BMI
timeFrame: 6 and 12 months after intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Rochester
country: United States
facility: Mayo Clinic in Rochester
state: Minnesota
Study officials:
affiliation: Mayo Clinic
name: Seema Kumar, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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