Walking to School Supports

Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Support for walking to school

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04089020

STUDY00000851

Details and patient eligibility

About

This pilot study will test the feasibility and acceptability of an enhanced individual-level intervention delivered to 4th-6th graders to increase rates of walking to/from school. Up to 8 youth who do not already walk to school will be enrolled into the intervention. The theoretically-based intervention content will be delivered over 6 weeks through family-based telephone coaching sessions, ongoing short message service (SMS) text messaging, and activities and content on the study website.

Enrollment: 32 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 13 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parents of children enrolled at Benjamin Banneker school
• Parents/child dyads who completed the Phase 1 survey OR respond to recruitment attempts and express interest in walking to school. Included parent/child dyads will be:

Those who do not participate in LINC program both before and after school 4+ days per week (child); Those who live within the school boundary and south of Meyer Blvd (i.e., close enough to an existing walking school bus route) or are willing to drop off and/or pick up the child at a place along an existing walking school bus route (i.e., remote drop off).

Exclusion criteria

• Children not enrolled at Benjamin Banneker school
• Those who participate in LINC program both before and after school 4+ days per week (child); Those who do not live within the school boundary and south of Meyer Blvd (i.e., close enough to an existing walking school bus route) or are not willing to drop off and/or pick up the child at a place along an existing walking school bus route (i.e., remote drop off).
• We will exclude each of the following special populations:

Adults unable to consent Prisoners Wards of the state Pregnant women may be included, but only in such capacity as parents of other children enrolled at Benjamin Banneker school

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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32 participants in 1 patient group

Psychosocial intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Text messaging and health coaching over the telephone to address goal setting, monitoring, motivation, problem solving, and related skills, delivered over 6 weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Support for walking to school