Dissemination of Physical Activity-related Health Competence in Vocational Education of Nursing Care (TakeCare!)

University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Competence; Education; Physical Activity; Nursing; Exercise

Treatments: Behavioral: Promotion of Physical Activity-related Health Competence (PAHCO)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05817396

K1-2497-GLB-21-V1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The "TakeCare!" study addresses the problem that vocational students of nursing care cope with great physical and psychological demands during their daily routines. To meet these demands, the Bavarian curriculum for generalist nurses has adopted the promotion of physical activity-related health competence (PAHCO) for vocational students. However, it must be assumed that the concept has not yet been adopted comprehensively across the Bavarian nursing landscape. Therefore, the "TakeCare!" study tackles the question of how PAHCO can be implemented most appropriately in Bavarian nursing schools. Drawing on experiences from the project PArC-AVE, three different dissemination approaches will being tested and compared with a control group. A total of 16 nursing schools from different regions of Bavaria will be assigned to four different study arms (cluster-randomized design). In the long term, the project aims to derive recommendations for all nursing schools in Bavaria.

Enrollment: 640 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria (School/Cluster Level):

• Private or Local Sponsorship
• Location in Bavaria
• Schools with 33-64 students in the first cohort (i.e., two or three classes per cohort)
• School director providing informed written consent by March 1st 2023

Inclusion Criteria (Student Level):

• Informed written consent to participate (or their legal guardians, if aged under 18 years)
• Part of the first education year (in cohort 2023/2024)

Exclusion Criteria:

-if any of the criteria mentioned above is not given

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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640 participants in 4 patient groups

Cooperative Planning for Promoting PAHCO

Experimental group

Description:

Participatively developed intervention concept by means of cooperative planning (Rütten, 1997) to promote physical activity-related health competence (PAHCO): A separate cooperative planning process will take place in each of the four schools in this study arm from April to November 2023. Within the framework of these processes, suitable interventions tailored to the target group and the school will be developed for the implementation of the curriculum content "PAHCO" with the participation of actors from science and practice (e.g., teachers, nursing students of the schools). The developed interventions will be implemented from December 2023 under the responsibility of the actors in the schools.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Promotion of Physical Activity-related Health Competence (PAHCO)

Expert-Based Intervention for Promoting PAHCO Delivered by External Physical Activity Specialists

Experimental group

Description:

Expert-based intervention concept with external physical activity specialists to promote physical activity-related health competence (PAHCO). We will develop a specific intervention concept for the implementation of the curriculum content "PAHCO" at nursing schools in Bavaria from April to November 2023. Currently (March 2022), it is planned that the intervention will comprise 12 sessions with a duration of 45 or 90 minutes. The entire intervention will be specified during the different steps of intervention mapping (i.e., needs assessment, goal formulation, screening evidence-based intervention content). Physical activity specialists (e.g. sports scientists, physiotherapists) will be trained to implement this expert-based intervention concept from December 2023 to March 2024.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Promotion of Physical Activity-related Health Competence (PAHCO)

Expert-Based Intervention for Promoting PAHCO Delivered by Teachers

Experimental group

Description:

Expert-based intervention concept with teachers as multipliers to promote physical activity-related health competence (PAHCO). We will develop a specific intervention concept for the implementation of the curriculum content "PAHCO" at nursing schools in Bavaria from April to November 2023. Currently (March 2022), it is planned that the intervention will comprise 12 sessions with a duration of 45 or 90 minutes. The entire intervention will be specified during the different steps of intervention mapping (i.e., needs assessment, goal formulation, screening evidence-based intervention content). Teachers of the participating nursing schools of this study arm will be trained to implement this expert-based intervention concept in their school from December 2023 to March 2024.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Promotion of Physical Activity-related Health Competence (PAHCO)

Regular Education and Health Promotion

No Intervention group

Description:

No systematic intervention concept: In the schools of this study arm, there is no systematic and scientifically supported intervention for the implementation of the curriculum content "PAHCO".