Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls (TAAG)

Obesity Clinical Trial

— TAAG  

Official title:

Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls (TAAG)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00006409
• Other study ID #: 934
• Secondary ID: U01HL066845
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• First received: October 12, 2000
• Last updated: June 29, 2015
• Start date: September 2000
• Est. completion date: August 2008

Study information

• Verified date: June 2015
• Source: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Federal Government
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

To test the effectiveness of a multicomponent school-based and community-linked intervention in preventing the decline in physical activity levels and cardiovascular fitness in girls in grades 6-8.

Description:

BACKGROUND:

The Report of the Surgeon General on Physical Activity and Health (USDHHS, 1996) emphasized that regular physical activity has important health benefits including reducing the risk of heart disease, and helping to treat and prevent high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes, and to prevent osteoporosis and colon cancer. In addition, physical activity helps control weight, reduces feelings of depression and anxiety, and promotes psychological well being. Inactivity increases with age and is more common among women than men and among those with lower income, less education, and in minorities (USDHHS, 1996). Even though adolescents are more active than adults, many do not engage in recommended levels of physical activity, and participation declines with age throughout adolescence, especially in girls (USDHHS, 1996; CDC, 1997). Fourteen percent of teenage girls get no regular exercise, twice the percentage as for boys. The proportion of adolescent girls who participate in regular vigorous physical activity declines dramatically each year they are in high school, from 61 percent among 9th graders to 41percent among 12th grade girls. In high school, enrollment for girls in daily physical education classes dropped from 41 percent in 1991 to 25 percent in 1995. Both the CDC report (1997) and the Surgeon General's Report (USDHHS, 1996) recommended the need for research testing the effectiveness of a coordinated school-based physical activity intervention linked to community agency programs to increase physical activity by adolescent girls.

The study is the result of a Request for Applications released in January, 2000. Awards were made in September 2000.

DESIGN NARRATIVE:

The purpose of the multicenter randomized trial is to test the effectiveness of a multicomponent school-based and community-linked intervention in preventing the decline in physical activity levels and cardiovascular fitness in middle school girls (i.e., in grades 6-8). The interventions will provide skills-building, supportive environments, and opportunities for participation in physical activity during and outside of the school day. Phase 1 will be 24 months for protocol development and pilot work, Phase II is 44 months for two years of intervention and one year of follow-up, and Phase III is 4 months for close out of the Study Centers, and 16 months for the Coordinating Center to collaboratively analyze and report the results.

The randomized trial of 36 middle schools (6 per field site) will collect data by two-cross sectional samples, one taken at the sixth grade (at least 1,728 girls) in the Spring of 2003 and the other taken at the eighth grade (at least 3,456 girls) in the Spring of 2005. Follow-up data collection will also occur at the eighth grade in the Spring of 2006.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 8727
• Est. completion date: August 2008
• Est. primary completion date: August 2008
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 12 Years to 14 Years

Eligibility

School inclusion criteria:

• Public middle schools in which a majority of students lived in the surrounding community

• Enrollment of at least 90 8th-grade girls

• Yearly withdrawal rates less than 28%

• At least one semester of physical education required for each grade

• Willingness to sign a memorandum of understanding and accept random assignment of the school

Student exclusion criteria:

• Limited English-speaking skills

• Unable to participate in physical education classes due to a medical condition or disability

• Contraindications for participating in a submaximal exercise test

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cardiovascular Diseases
• Heart Diseases
• Obesity

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls (TAAG)
Intervention activities were designed to create (1) environmental and organizational changes supportive of physical activity and (2) cues, messages, and incentives to be more active. The intervention was designed to establish more opportunities, improve social support and norms, and increase self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and behavioral skills to foster greater moderate-vigorous physical activity (MVPA). An innovative feature of TAAG was linking school and community agencies to promote activity programs for girls. Finally, a TAAG Program Champion component was developed to foster sustainability after the 2-year staff-directed intervention. TAAG investigators recruited and trained Program Champions during the staff-directed intervention phase to promote maintenance of the program.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

References & Publications (37)

Birnbaum AS, Evenson KR, Motl RW, Dishman RK, Voorhees CC, Sallis JF, Elder JP, Dowda M. Scale development for perceived school climate for girls' physical activity. Am J Health Behav. 2005 May-Jun;29(3):250-7. — View Citation

Catellier DJ, Hannan PJ, Murray DM, Addy CL, Conway TL, Yang S, Rice JC. Imputation of missing data when measuring physical activity by accelerometry. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2005 Nov;37(11 Suppl):S555-62. — View Citation

Cohen DA, Ashwood JS, Scott MM, Overton A, Evenson KR, Staten LK, Porter D, McKenzie TL, Catellier D. Public parks and physical activity among adolescent girls. Pediatrics. 2006 Nov;118(5):e1381-9. — View Citation

Cohen, D., Ashwood, S., Scott, M., Overton, A., Evenson, K. R., Voorhees, C. C., Bedimo-Rung, A., McKenzie, T. Proximity to School and Physical Activity Among Middle School Girls: The Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls Study. Journal of Physical Activ

Dishman RK, Motl RW, Sallis JF, Dunn AL, Birnbaum AS, Welk GJ, Bedimo-Rung AL, Voorhees CC, Jobe JB. Self-management strategies mediate self-efficacy and physical activity. Am J Prev Med. 2005 Jul;29(1):10-8. — View Citation

Dowda M, McKenzie TL, Cohen DA, Scott MM, Evenson KR, Bedimo-Rung AL, Voorhees CC, Almeida MJ. Commercial venues as supports for physical activity in adolescent girls. Prev Med. 2007 Aug-Sep;45(2-3):163-8. Epub 2007 Jun 7. — View Citation

Elder JP, Lytle L, Sallis JF, Young DR, Steckler A, Simons-Morton D, Stone E, Jobe JB, Stevens J, Lohman T, Webber L, Pate R, Saksvig BI, Ribisl K. A description of the social-ecological framework used in the trial of activity for adolescent girls (TAAG). — View Citation

Evenson KR, Birnbaum AS, Bedimo-Rung AL, Sallis JF, Voorhees CC, Ring K, Elder JP. Girls' perception of physical environmental factors and transportation: reliability and association with physical activity and active transport to school. Int J Behav Nutr — View Citation

Evenson KR, Scott MM, Cohen DA, Voorhees CC. Girls' perception of neighborhood factors on physical activity, sedentary behavior, and BMI. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2007 Feb;15(2):430-45. — View Citation

Gittelsohn J, Steckler A, Johnson CC, Pratt C, Grieser M, Pickrel J, Stone EJ, Conway T, Coombs D, Staten LK. Formative research in school and community-based health programs and studies: "state of the art" and the TAAG approach. Health Educ Behav. 2006 F — View Citation

Going S, Nichols J, Loftin M, Stewart D, Lohman T, Tuuri G, Ring K, Pickrel J, Blew R, J Stevens. Validation of bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) for estimation of body composition in Black, White and Hispanic adolescent girls. Int J Body Compos Res. — View Citation

Grieser M, Vu MB, Bedimo-Rung AL, Neumark-Sztainer D, Moody J, Young DR, Moe SG. Physical activity attitudes, preferences, and practices in African American, Hispanic, and Caucasian girls. Health Educ Behav. 2006 Feb;33(1):40-51. — View Citation

Loftin M, Nichols J, Going S, Sothern M, Schmitz KH, Ring K, Tuuri G, Stevens J. Comparison of the validity of anthropometric and bioelectric impedance equations to assess body composition in adolescent girls. Int J Body Compos Res. 2007;5(1):1-8. — View Citation

Lohman TG, Ring K, Schmitz KH, Treuth MS, Loftin M, Yang S, Sothern M, Going S. Associations of body size and composition with physical activity in adolescent girls. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2006 Jun;38(6):1175-81. — View Citation

McKenzie TL, Catellier DJ, Conway T, Lytle LA, Grieser M, Webber LA, Pratt CA, Elder JP. Girls' activity levels and lesson contexts in middle school PE: TAAG baseline. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2006 Jul;38(7):1229-35. — View Citation

McMurray RG, Ring KB, Treuth MS, Welk GJ, Pate RR, Schmitz KH, Pickrel JL, Gonzalez V, Almedia MJ, Young DR, Sallis JF. Comparison of two approaches to structured physical activity surveys for adolescents. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2004 Dec;36(12):2135-43. — View Citation

Moe SG, Pickrel J, McKenzie TL, Strikmiller PK, Coombs D, Murrie D. Using school-level interviews to develop a Multisite PE intervention program. Health Educ Behav. 2006 Feb;33(1):52-65. — View Citation

Moody JS, Prochaska JJ, Sallis JF, McKenzie TL, Brown M, Conway TL. Viability of parks and recreation centers as sites for youth physical activity promotion. Health Promot Pract. 2004 Oct;5(4):438-43. — View Citation

Murray DM, Catellier DJ, Hannan PJ, Treuth MS, Stevens J, Schmitz KH, Rice JC, Conway TL. School-level intraclass correlation for physical activity in adolescent girls. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2004 May;36(5):876-82. — View Citation

Murray DM, Stevens J, Hannan PJ, Catellier DJ, Schmitz KH, Dowda M, Conway TL, Rice JC, Yang S. School-level intraclass correlation for physical activity in sixth grade girls. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2006 May;38(5):926-36. — View Citation

Nichols J, Going S, Loftin M, Stewart D, Nowicki E, Pickrel J. Comparison of two bioelectrical impedance analysis instruments for determining body composition in adolescent girls. Int J Body Compos Res. 2006;4(4):153-160. — View Citation

Pate RR, Stevens J, Pratt C, Sallis JF, Schmitz KH, Webber LS, Welk G, Young DR. Objectively measured physical activity in sixth-grade girls. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2006 Dec;160(12):1262-8. — View Citation

Pfeiffer KA, Schmitz KH, McMurray RG, Treuth MS, Murray DM, Pate RR. Physical activities in adolescent girls: variability in energy expenditure. Am J Prev Med. 2006 Oct;31(4):328-31. Epub 2006 Aug 28. — View Citation

Rushovich BR, Voorhees CC, Davis CE, Neumark-Sztainer D, Pfeiffer KA, Elder JP, Going S, Marino VG. The relationship between unsupervised time after school and physical activity in adolescent girls. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2006 Jul 31;3:20. — View Citation

Saksvig BI, Catellier DJ, Pfeiffer K, Schmitz KH, Conway T, Going S, Ward D, Strikmiller P, Treuth MS. Travel by walking before and after school and physical activity among adolescent girls. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2007 Feb;161(2):153-8. — View Citation

Saunders RP, Moody J. Community agency survey formative research results from the TAAG study. Health Educ Behav. 2006 Feb;33(1):12-24. — View Citation

Schmitz KH, Treuth M, Hannan P, McMurray R, Ring KB, Catellier D, Pate R. Predicting energy expenditure from accelerometry counts in adolescent girls. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2005 Jan;37(1):155-61. — View Citation

Scott MM, Cohen DA, Evenson KR, Elder J, Catellier D, Ashwood JS, Overton A. Weekend schoolyard accessibility, physical activity, and obesity: the Trial of Activity in Adolescent Girls (TAAG) study. Prev Med. 2007 May;44(5):398-403. Epub 2006 Dec 29. — View Citation

Scott MM, Evenson KR, Cohen DA, Cox CE. Comparing perceived and objectively measured access to recreational facilities as predictors of physical activity in adolescent girls. J Urban Health. 2007 May;84(3):346-59. — View Citation

Staten LK, Birnbaum AS, Jobe JB, Elder JP. A typology of middle school girls: audience segmentation related to physical activity. Health Educ Behav. 2006 Feb;33(1):66-80. — View Citation

Stevens J, Murray DM, Catellier DJ, Hannan PJ, Lytle LA, Elder JP, Young DR, Simons-Morton DG, Webber LS. Design of the Trial of Activity in Adolescent Girls (TAAG). Contemp Clin Trials. 2005 Apr;26(2):223-33. — View Citation

Treuth MS, Catellier DJ, Schmitz KH, Pate RR, Elder JP, McMurray RG, Blew RM, Yang S, Webber L. Weekend and weekday patterns of physical activity in overweight and normal-weight adolescent girls. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2007 Jul;15(7):1782-8. — View Citation

Treuth MS, Schmitz K, Catellier DJ, McMurray RG, Murray DM, Almeida MJ, Going S, Norman JE, Pate R. Defining accelerometer thresholds for activity intensities in adolescent girls. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2004 Jul;36(7):1259-66. — View Citation

Voorhees CC, Murray D, Welk G, Birnbaum A, Ribisl KM, Johnson CC, Pfeiffer KA, Saksvig B, Jobe JB. The role of peer social network factors and physical activity in adolescent girls. Am J Health Behav. 2005 Mar-Apr;29(2):183-90. — View Citation

Vu MB, Murrie D, Gonzalez V, Jobe JB. Listening to girls and boys talk about girls' physical activity behaviors. Health Educ Behav. 2006 Feb;33(1):81-96. — View Citation

Young DR, Felton GM, Grieser M, Elder JP, Johnson C, Lee JS, Kubik MY. Policies and opportunities for physical activity in middle school environments. J Sch Health. 2007 Jan;77(1):41-7. — View Citation

Young DR, Johnson CC, Steckler A, Gittelsohn J, Saunders RP, Saksvig BI, Ribisl KM, Lytle LA, McKenzie TL. Data to action: using formative research to develop intervention programs to increase physical activity in adolescent girls. Health Educ Behav. 2006 — View Citation

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	MET-weighted MVPA: Daily Minutes of Moderate-to-vigorous Physical Activity (MVPA) Weighted by Metabolic Equivalent of Task (MET)		Post-2 year intervention	No
Primary	MET-weighted MVPA: Daily Minutes of Moderate-to-vigorous Physical Activity (MVPA) Weighted by Metabolic Equivalent of Task (MET)		Post-3 year intervention	No