Evaluation of CHAM JAM Increasing Physical Activity Levels in Students

Obesity Clinical Trial

Official title:

Evaluation of CHAM JAM (Previously Known as the Moving Smart) Intervention in Increasing Physical Activity in Bronx Elementary School Students

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00556569
• Other study ID #: 07-08-253
• Secondary ID: RC1HD063607
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: November 9, 2007
• Last updated: February 20, 2018
• Start date: December 2007
• Est. completion date: June 2012

Study information

• Verified date: February 2018
• Source: Montefiore Medical Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if the "Moving Smart" program, a daily 10-minute classroom-based exercise program, increases physical activity levels during the school day in Bronx elementary school students.

Description:

Background: Medical and national public health authorities recommend daily school physical education for all ages due to well-known health benefits of physical activity. Nevertheless, daily physical education among elementary and secondary school students is not common in United States' (US) schools. Moreover, some of the schools in many US cities, such as the Bronx, do not even have gymnasiums or physical education teachers.

Objective: We propose to implement and test the effectiveness and feasibility of the "Moving Smart" (MS) program, a daily, 10-minute classroom-based physical activity program led by teachers that integrate academic objectives with physical activity, on increasing physical activity (PA) levels during the school day in Bronx elementary school students.

Design/ Methods: A cluster-randomized, wait-listed control trial of four Bronx elementary schools with one-year follow-up longitudinal study. Students in two intervention schools will receive the MS 3-times daily, for 10-minutes each time, in addition to regular physical education classes. Two wait-listed control schools will receive their regular physical education classes only. Subjects in the wait-listed control group will be offered the MS after the program is withdrawn from the intervention group at the end of the first year of study. A pedometer, an objective measure of PA in children, will be used to determine mean number of steps each student takes during school hours for 5 consecutive days at baseline, and every 3-months during the 2-year study period. For longitudinal follow-up, we will collect data from intervention group students and teachers on PA levels every 3-months for one-year after the intervention cessation. We will also collect yearly BMIs as a measure of overweight status. Descriptive statistics will be used to portray baseline characteristics of each group based on school, district, region, and NYC-wide data. The impact of the intervention on PA will be measured by comparing intervention and control schools using pedometer measurements as the primary dependent variable and students as the unit of analysis. We will collect fidelity measures by randomly selecting classes from the intervention schools and directly observing the level of PA present. We will determine the extent to which the MS becomes a part of the routine school policy by following the students and teachers from the intervention schools for 1-year after the intervention cessation.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 10098
• Est. completion date: June 2012
• Est. primary completion date: June 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 5 Years to 10 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Elementary school students in K-3 grade in the Bronx, New York

Exclusion Criteria:

• Inability to participate in basic exercise program

• Students whose parents signed the opt-out letter

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Obesity
• Physical Activity

Intervention

Other:
• CHAM JAM
CHAM JAM (previously known as Moving Smart" (MS) program) is a daily, 10-minute classroom-based physical activity program led by teachers that integrates academic objectives with physical activity

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	4 Elementary Schools	Bronx	New York

Sponsors (2)

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

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (2)

Reznik M, Wylie-Rosett J, Kim M, Ozuah PO. A classroom-based physical activity intervention for urban kindergarten and first-grade students: a feasibility study. Child Obes. 2015 Jun;11(3):314-24. doi: 10.1089/chi.2014.0090. Epub 2015 Mar 6. — View Citation

Reznik M, Wylie-Rosett J, Kim M, Ozuah PO. Physical activity during school in urban minority kindergarten and first-grade students. Pediatrics. 2013 Jan;131(1):e81-7. doi: 10.1542/peds.2012-1685. Epub 2012 Dec 3. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Fitness assessment for subset of students	FitnessGRAM and step test	baseline, 3 months and 12 months
Primary	pedometer-derived step count	mean number of step counts	baseline and every 3 months
Secondary	Body mass index	formula for BMI that includes weight and height	baseline and 1 year later