Increasing Water Access and Appeal in Community Recreation Centers (Hydrate Philly)

Philadelphia Department of Public Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Hydrate Philly

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT03637465

49200

74395 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is a cluster randomized controlled trial with n=28 City of Philadelphia recreation centers (14 matched pairs) designed to determine the effectiveness of a comprehensive multi-level intervention to increase water access and appeal in community recreation centers on 1) center-level water intake as measured by water meters, and 2) purchase of outside beverages as measured by observations of recreation center youth.

Enrollment: 28 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Recreation center is located in a low-income neighborhood in the City of Philadelphia, defined by ≥20% of the residents in the zip code at or below Federal Poverty Level
• Recreation center includes both summer and after-school programming
• Recreation center is willing to comply with City of Philadelphia Healthy Vending standards and discourage sugar sweetened beverage consumption
• Recreation center has water lines appropriate for installing indoor hydration stations

Exclusion criteria

• Unwilling to accept randomization

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

---

28 participants in 2 patient groups

Hydrate Philly Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention group that receives hydration station intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Hydrate Philly

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Control group that receives no intervention, but observational data is collected; converted to wait-listed intervention status after enrollment and randomization was completed