Walking to School Supports

Health Behavior Clinical Trial

Official title:

Psychosocial Supports for Walking to School Paired With a Walking School Bus

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04089020
• Other study ID #: STUDY00000851
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 25, 2019
• Est. completion date: January 31, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: October 2022
• Source: Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 32
• Est. completion date: January 31, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 5 Years to 13 Years

Eligibility

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Health Behavior

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Support for walking to school
5 modules that address psychosocial skills, with ongoing text messaging.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Children's Mercy Hospital	Kansas City	Missouri

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City	University of Kansas, University of Kansas Medical Center

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Acceptability of Intervention: "Satisfaction Questionnaire"	Acceptability and preferences related to intervention content will be measured using a questionnaire developed for this study ("satisfaction questionnaire"). Families (both parent and child responding together) will respond to 5 items asking about satisfaction with the intervention components. Items are rated on a 10-pt scale (minimum:1- maximum:10), with higher values indicating greater satisfaction. They will respond to two additional open-ended questions asking which aspects of the intervention they liked most and least. These qualitative items will be summarized.	at 6 weeks, immediately after completion of the intervention
Secondary	Frequency of Walking to School	Number of walking trips to/from school per week (0 to 10) will be assessed using a daily (Mon-Fri) tracking questionnaire completed through RedCap.	up to 6 weeks