Stay Active Physical Activity Program

Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy Lifestyle; Sedentary Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: CBPA + family support; Behavioral: CBPA

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04675658

STUDY00001495

Details and patient eligibility

About

The pilot study will create, implement, and evaluate a physical activity program in both the school and home setting during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Full description

This study will compare the impact of two physical activity interventions on student's physical activity.

Enrollment: 53 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Classrooms

• Teacher of a 4th or 5th grade class in the Kansas City area.
• English speaking only

Students

• Any student in the selected classrooms
• A parent or guardian of the student
• English speaking only

Exclusion criteria

• Does not meet the required criteria above.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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53 participants in 2 patient groups

Classroom Intervention

Active Comparator group

Description:

Physical activity support is provided by integrating daily structured activities in the classroom delivered by physical activity leaders through a video conferencing platform in partnership with the classroom teacher. Activities last about 10 minutes or less and have the flexibility of being integrated with academic lessons or serving as a break from academics. The activities are simple and get kids moving in place. The activities will be delivered by a research staff member via video conferencing (using the schools preferred platform). A combination of live activities led by the research team and pre-recorded videos will be used (see example below). If live videos do not work for the teacher, they will have the option to only use the pre-recorded videos or receive a list of resources to promote CBPA in their classrooms.

Treatment:

Behavioral: CBPA

Classroom Intervention plus family support

Experimental group

Description:

Same components as the Classroom Intervention Arm plus the following: Family Component: A newsletter will be sent to parents or guardians once every two weeks over the semester and posted on the study website. The newsletters include physical activity information related to safety/protection, skills building, motivation, overcoming barriers, and goal setting and monitoring (all newsletters are included as an appendix). As part of the program, children also receive a Garmin wearable physical activity monitor. Parents or guardians will receive text messages with behavior change messages based on the Garmin data (text message content is included as an appendix). Text messages also contain links to website materials. Texts will be sent out using the Twilio platform.

Treatment:

Behavioral: CBPA + family support