Healthy Youth Places: A Program to Promote Nutrition and Physical Activity in Adolescents

Health Behavior Clinical Trial

Official title:

Youth Environments Promoting Nutrition and Activity

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00059527
• Other study ID #: 5R01HD37367-3
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• First received: April 28, 2003
• Last updated: October 28, 2014
• Start date: March 1999
• Est. completion date: May 2003

Study information

• Verified date: August 2005
• Source: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Federal Government
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

To reduce the risk for chronic disease, adolescents should eat at least five servings of fruit and vegetables and be physically active daily. This study will implement and evaluate a school-based program to encourage adolescents to achieve and maintain a healthy diet and exercise regimen.

Description:

The Healthy Youth Places project will test if an intervention strategy that implements school environmental change, with both adult leader and youth participation, will influence and maintain adolescent fruit and vegetable consumption and physical activity.

The study will assess the effects of school environment and curriculum interventions promoting fruit and vegetable (F&V) consumption, physical activity (PA), and their environmental determinants. The project will involve goal-setting and efficacy-building interventions designed to develop the skills and group efficacy of both adult school personnel and students. The adult-based interventions are designed to change the school environments through a school coalition assisted by a local coordinator. The youth interventions involve the participation of students in the processes of building the local health behavior environments and target both school lunch and after-school activity environments.

The project encourages adult and youth participation in the process of planning and implementing environmental change in targeted adolescent physical and social environments (school lunch place, after-school program place). Environmental change is defined as implemented practices, programs, and policies that promote critical elements (connection, autonomy, skill-building, healthy fruit and vegetable and physical activity norms). These critical elements are social environmental processes of behavior change.

Sixteen schools will be randomly assigned to either the experimental or the control (no treatment) condition. The health behavior of adolescents will be assessed during the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth grades. Measurement of F&V and PA behaviors are the primary outcomes and will be assessed by self-report and verified by objective measures of school lunch purchases and physical activity monitoring. The impact of the program on personal, environmental, and behavioral determinants of F&V and PA will also be measured.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 2000
• Est. completion date: May 2003
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 11 Years to 16 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria

• Student attending sixth through eighth grades

• Participating middle school

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Health Behavior

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Healthy Youth Places: a behavior change model

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

References & Publications (1)

Dzewaltowski DA, Estabrooks PA, Johnston JA. Healthy youth places promoting nutrition and physical activity. Health Educ Res. 2002 Oct;17(5):541-51. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Moderate and Vigorous Physical Activity
Primary	Vigorous Physical Activity
Primary	Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
Secondary	Self-efficacy

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